Poetry for Students Vol. 10

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Poetry for Students Copyright Notice Since this page cannot legibly accommodate all copyright notices, the acknowledgments const ...

National Advisory Board Dale Allender:Teacher, West High School, Iowa City, Iowa. Dana Gioia:Poet and critic. His books include ...

Table of Contents Guest Foreword “Just a Few Lines on a Page” by David J. Kelly................... .x Introduction.............. ...

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A Birthday (by Christina Rossetti). Author Biography. Poem Text. Poem Summary. Themes. Style. Historical Context. Critical Over ...

Just a Few Lines on a Page tually travel to different times and different cul- tures, but the poems get into our minds, they fin ...

Volume 10 xi of our emotions. Practice is just another word for being a student. The information given here helps you understand ...

Introduction poem, when available. A unique feature of Pf Sis a specially commissioned overview essay on each poem by an academi ...

Volume 10 xiii panding the canon of literature, an emphasis was also placed on including works by international, multicultural, ...

xiv Poetry for Students Study Questions:a list of potential study ques- tions or research topics dealing with the poem. This se ...

Literary Chronology 1830:Emily Dickinson is born in Amherst, Mass- achusetts, where she will live all her life. 1830:Christina R ...

xvi Poetry for Students 1935:Charles Wright is born in Hardin County, Tennessee. 1936:W. H. Auden’s poem, “Funeral Blues,” first ...

Acknowledgments The editors wish to thank the copyright hold- ers of the excerpted criticism included in this vol- ume and the p ...

xviii Poetry for Students photograph. The Library of Congress.—Frost, Robert, photograph. The Library of Congress.— Graham, Jori ...

Contributors Greg Barnhisel:Greg Barnhisel holds a Ph.D. in American Literture from the University of Texas at Austin. He has ta ...

xx Poetry for Students Aviya Kushner:Aviya Kushner is the Con- tributing Editor in Poetry at BarnesandNoble.com and the Poetry E ...

Volume 10 xxi Karen D. Thompson:Thompson has done graduate work at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and has taught ...