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The Bad Parents' Garden of Verse, Illustrated by Reginald Birch
The bad parent's garden of verse; illus by R. Birch
A Child's Garden of Verses
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
Published: 1914
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The classic book of children's poetry that immortalized "The Land of Counterpane," "The Land of Nod, " "My Shadow, " and "Foreign Land."
The Life and Rhymes of Ogden Nash
Author: David Stuart
Publisher: Madison Books
Published: 2000-04-05
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1461710367
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ogden Nash was a rare poet. He celebrated the ordinary with delight and curiosity: husbands and wives at work, children at play, a society in motion. He studied popular culture with a penetrating eye and wrote about America, its icons, habits, and affectations with humor and levity. He struggled with comparisons to “serious” poets, those heroes of the canon who abandoned the rhyme and meter that Nash found crucial to his style of writing. His witty, insightful, and graceful vignettes captured those moments in life that defy heavy-handed treatment. Nash did not live out the stereotype of the aloof poet-recluse. In addition to his writing, Nash pursued publishing, screenwriting, and a rigorous lecture circuit. This self-styled [pet of wide appeal appeared in newspapers and magazines found in homes across the country, accessible publications such as Life, New Yorker, Cosmopolitan, SportsIllustrated, Reader’sDigest, and McCall’s. At a time when children’s literature meant Winnie-the-Pooh, Nash produced verses for and about young people that amused, educated, and more importantly, didn’t pander or lecture. These poems and collections, including Custard the Dragon, The New Nutcracker Suite and Other Innocent Verses, A Boy Is a Boy, and Girls Are Silly, were classics of the genre. Nash left behind an invaluable body of work: charming, clever, and utterly unique.
The Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America
Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1990-12-13
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 019028174X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Compiled by the award-winning poet and author of children's books, Donald Hall, this delightful anthology follows in the tradition of Iona and Peter Opie's classic Oxford Book of Children's Verse. Hall brings together poems written specifically for children and also those written for anyone and enjoyed by children and adults alike. He presents over two hundred fifty poems written by over one hundred different American poets--including anonymous works, ballads, and recitation pieces--that range from the Calvinist verses of the seventeenth century to the fabulous nonsense poems of the present. Drawing on literally thousands of sources--including Sunday School magazines, Christmas annuals for children, and such wonderful children's periodicals as St. Nicholas and Youth's Companion--Hall gives the modern reader a rich sampling of many poems never before anthologized. He includes everyone's favorites, from Clement Clarke Moore's "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (a.k.a. "The Night Before Christmas") to the classic lines of Longfellow and Whittier. Along with Sarah Josepha Hale's famous poem, "Mary's Lamb," we find poetry by Emily Dickinson, Mary Mapes Dodge, Palmer Cox, Sarah Orne Jewett, Laura E. Richards, and Gelett Burgess. He also covers the twentieth-century with verse by T.S. Eliot, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel), and Randall Jarrell, just to name a few. Hall concludes with the poetry of present-day writers such as Shel Silverstein and Nancy Willard. A testament to a captivating tradition in American literature, this anthology will encourage many hours of nostalgic browsing and reading aloud to children.
Looking at Life Through American Literature
Author: Nellie Mae Lombard
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1940
Total Pages: 108
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Dictionary of Writers and their Works
Author: Christopher Riches
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015-01-29
Total Pages: 1431
ISBN-13: 019251850X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.
The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes
Author: Clifton Fadiman
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Published: 2009-10-31
Total Pages: 1322
ISBN-13: 0316084727
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A book compiled of anecdotes from other collections, arranged under the name of the person they're about.
A Study Guide for Ogden Nash's "The Hippopotamus"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 1410348091
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Study Guide for Ogden Nash's "The Hippopotamus," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
