30 poems to memorize (before it's too late)
Book - 2020
Featuring some of the most essential poems ever written. Each poem, which has been carefully selected by a panel of poets, educators, and scholars, has been chosen for its memorizable-ness and for the properties within the poem that make it worth learning by heart, and keeping there. Alongside each poem is a brief but thoughtful essay that explores the poem and identifies questions to ask, images to contemplate, and forms to revel in.
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- Published
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Concord, NC :
CiRCE Books
[2020].
- Language
- English
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- 255 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9781734785319
- If I could tell you / W.H. Auden
- Early in the year by my friend's gift / Wendell Berry
- We grow accustomed to the dark / Emily Dickinson
- Holy sonnet XIV / John Donne
- Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Preludes / T.S. Eliot
- Bilingual / Rhina P. Espaillat
- Road not taken ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost
- Words / Dana Gioia
- Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden
- Love (III) / George Herbert
- The Iliad: book 1, 1-14 (trans. by Alexander Pope) ; The odyssey: book XXIII, 208-230 (trans. by W. Cowper) / Homer
- God's grandeur ; As kingfishers catch fire / Gerad Manley Hopkins
- Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes
- Act of imagination / Elizabeth Jennings
- Bright star / John Keats
- Let evening come / Jane Kenyon
- Mark Anthony's speech from Julius Caesar ; Agincourt speech from Henry V ; Portia's speech from The merchant of Venice / William Shakespeare
- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Listening to Peter and the wolf with Jason, aged three / A.E. Stallings
- House was quiet and the world was calm / Wallace Stevens
- Sailing to Byzantium / W.B. Yeats
- Love call us to the things of the world / Richard Wilbur
- The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth.
