{"product_id":"a-treasury-of-favorite-poems-9781435164970b","title":"A Treasury of Favorite Poems","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eA Treasury of Favorite Poems\u003c\/span\u003e celebrates the rich poetic legacy of America and England with more than 400 poems that span more than four centuries. The poets represented are acknowledged as among the world’s greatest: William Shakespeare, John Milton, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Wallace Stevens, and more than fifty others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to a generous selection of Shakespeare’s sonnets, this volume includes the complete text of William Blake’s \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eSongs of Innocence and of Experience\u003c\/span\u003e, and such familiar classics as Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s  “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner\u003c\/span\u003e,” Edgar Allan Poe’s “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Raven\u003c\/span\u003e,” Matthew Arnold’s “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eDover Beach\u003c\/span\u003e,” Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eConcord Hymn\u003c\/span\u003e,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ePaul Revere’s Ride\u003c\/span\u003e,” Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Ballad of the Harp-Weaver\u003c\/span\u003e,” and Robert Frost’s “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Road Not Taken\u003c\/span\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are poems here to suit all moods an interests: love poems from Christopher Marlowe and Andrew Marvell; meditative poems including John Milton’s sonnet on his blindness and Thomas Gray’s “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eElegy Written in a Country Church-Yard\u003c\/span\u003e”; politically charged poems such as Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eOzymandias\u003c\/span\u003e” and William Butler Yeats’ “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eEaster, 1916\u003c\/span\u003e”; nonsense verse from Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll; poems of place such as Carl Sandburg’s “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eChicago\u003c\/span\u003e” and Walt Whitman’s “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eCrossing Brooklyn Ferry\u003c\/span\u003e”; and poems of passion including Emily Bronte’s “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eNo coward soul is mine”\u003c\/span\u003e and selections from Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese. There are even celebrations of the Christmas holiday in Clement Clarke Moore’s “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eA Visit from St. Nicholas\u003c\/span\u003e” and of America’s national pastime in Ernest Thayer’s whimsical “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eCasey at the Bat\u003c\/span\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor anyone who admires achievements in the poetic form and the skill with which poets capture in memorable phrases the emotions and experiences that speak to every reader, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eA Treasury of Favorite Poems\u003c\/span\u003e is a bountiful collection of some of the world’s best-loved and most popular poetry.","brand":"Fall River Press","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42818977923152,"sku":"9781435164970B","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781435164970-l.jpg?v=1785874111","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/a-treasury-of-favorite-poems-9781435164970b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}