Bibliograph

Poetry for young people American Poetry, ; edited by John Hollander, Ph. D. ; illustrated by Sally Wern Comport

Type

Label

Poetry for young people American Poetry, ; edited by John Hollander, Ph. D. ; illustrated by Sally Wern Comport

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Poetry for young people American Poetry

Oclc number

57315296

Responsibility statement

; edited by John Hollander, Ph. D. ; illustrated by Sally Wern Comport

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- I hear America singing / Walt Whitman -- American names / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Indian names / Lydia Huntley Sigourney -- Navajo blanket / May Swenson -- Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Defence of Fort McHenry / Francis Scott Key -- New Colossus / Emma Lazarus -- Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens -- Portrait VIII -- O captain! My captain! / Walt Whitman -- Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- To an American painter departing for Europe / William Cullen Bryant -- Casey at the bat / Ernest Thayer -- House on the hill / Edward Arlington Robinson -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Great figure / William Carlos Williams -- Amherst train / Emily Dickinson -- Engine / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- Virginia / T.S. Eliot -- On the Mississippi / Hamlin Garland -- Harlem Hopscotch / Maya Angelou -- Jazz Fantasia / Carl Sandburg -- America for me / Henry Van Dyke -- America / Claude McKay -- Rockets that reached Saturn / Vachel Lindsay -- Index

Target audience

juvenile

resource.variantTitle

American Poetry

Classification