The Mentor Book of Major American Poets
10 best books like The Mentor Book of Major American Poets (Oscar Williams): Digger, Volume Three, Hymns and Fragments, The Top 500 Poems, Poems, 1965-1975, The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost, Short Shorts, Treasury of American Poetry, The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets, Poet's Choice, Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge
| Author | Ursula Vernon |
| ISBN | 0979149630 |
In this third volume of Digger, covering chapters five and six of Ursula Vernon's webcomic, our wombat Heroine is driven from the protective care of the Hag by the persistent efforts of Captain Jhalm. Back in the strange world outside the temple of Ganesh, Digger encounters friends new and old, while...
| Author | Friedrich Hölderlin |
| ISBN | 0691014124 |
Holderlin was one among a group of German Romantic poets that were on the periphery of German Idealism. Along with Novalis and Schiller, his work utilizes Idealist concepts in an overtly aesthetic framework. Like many German Romantic poets and philosophers, he is often ignored by the sottish tendency...
The Top 500 Poems offers a vivid portrait of poetry in English, assembling a host of popular and enduring poems as chosen by critics, editors, poets, and general readers. These works speak across centuries, beginning with Chaucer's resourceful inventions and moving through Shakespeare's masterpieces,...
| Author | Seamus Heaney |
| ISBN | 0374516529 |
Heaney, the Nobel Laureate poet, has an interesting impact on people. His poems are undeniably refined and precise. He has a gift of placing words together in ways that seem naturally placed, and perfect. He has tremendous knowledge of the past, and mythology frequently finds its way into his poems....
| Author | Harold Bloom |
| ISBN | 0060540419 |
Bloom’s stand-alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language
A notable feature of Harold Bloom’s poetry anthology The Best Poems English Language is his lengthy introductory essay, here reprinted as a separate book. For the first time Bloom gives his readers...
| Author | Irving Howe |
| ISBN | 0553274406 |
This is a fine collection of what Howe here, in the 80s, dubs "Short Short Fiction" and which was called "Microfiction" in the 90s and which we now call "Flash Fiction". I feel it's a useful collection for editors, like me, who are trying to get a handle on what constitutes valid standards for successful...
| Author | Nancy Sullivan |
| ISBN | 0880295139 |
The four centuries of poetry in this collection represent the growth and shaping of the American spirit. Nearly 800 masterpieces by 115 American poetics are included in this single volume beginning with Anne Bradstreet. Read the graceful love poetry of Emily Dickinson, the powerful voice of Walt...
| Author | Bill Moyers |
| ISBN | 0385479174 |
Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen."
In a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four American poets, "The...
| Author | Edward Hirsch |
| ISBN | 0156032678 |
Edward Hirsch began writing a column called "Poet’s Choice" in the Washington Post Book World in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns, some of which have been revised and expanded, to present a minicourse in world poetry. Poet’s Choice includes the work of more than...
| Author | Delmore Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0811201910 |
When this book was first published (as Summer Knowledge) in 1959.
Delmore Schwartz was still riding a crest, the golden boy of the literary scene—a position he had commanded ever since the appearance of his first collection of stories and poems in 1938. Summer Knowledge won for him both the prestigious...
| Author | J.D. McClatchy |
| ISBN | 1400030935 |
Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas...
| Author | E.E. Cummings |
| ISBN | 0156210622 |
For anyone who thinks they may not be an e.e. cummings fan: I feel compelled to document my experience with his poetry because of how greatly my opinion of it changed over time.
I bought the book on a whim because I'd admired a few of his daring, unique poems in high school.
Reading through the entirety...
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| ISBN | 0451529073 |
People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
I expect most people read Emerson in college, which I suppose is the perfect time to do so. The man seems constantly to be speaking to the young, wide-eyed, enthusiastic, hopeful liberal arts major in me. There’s just something...
| Author | Robert Pinsky |
| ISBN | 0393048209 |
The selections in this anthology were chosen form the personal letters of thousands of Americans who responded to Robert Pinsky's invitation to write to him about their favorite poems. Some poems are memories treasured in the mind since childhood; some crystallize the passion of love or recall the...
| Author | Helen Josephine Ferris |
| ISBN | 0385062494 |
Long long ago this book was gifted to my family by a friend of my father who was in the publishing business. I have many fond memories reading poems from this 500+ page volume. Some are funny, some are famous, some are esoteric and some are easy to grok. It's a collection that a logical numbers person like...
| Author | Arthur Quiller-Couch |
| ISBN | 0198121075 |
The Oxford Book of English Verse was first published in 1900 and it initiated the famous series of Oxford Books that has been running ever since. It quickly established itself as a classic anthology, equal to Palgrave's Golden Treasury in popularity and public recognition. Having sold half a million...
| Author | Robert Frost |
| ISBN | 0806906332 |
"In an attractive large-size volume...25 poems to introduce Robert Frost to young people. The selections are arranged by the seasons, and Sorensen's handsome watercolor illustrations capture the feel of the New England landscape without in any way trying to provide literal images for the poetry....
| Author | Hayden Carruth |
| ISBN | 0553262637 |
I purchased a copy of this book before leaving for Senegal as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 1974. For two years I lived in a mud hut in a small village on the edge of the Sahara, far from running water, electricity, or anybody who spoke english.
The Voice That Is Great Within Us kept me excellent company...
| Author | Roy Jay Cook |
| ISBN | 0809288311 |
The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
~Francis William Bourdillon
This old...
| Author | Hazel Felleman |
| ISBN | 0385000197 |
The section titles of this book invite you to sample the feast within: Childhood and youth, Humor and whimsey and on and on. This is a book I'll never tire of holding. Memories take me back to sheltered times. I may have been a benighted fool but these poems never ceased to please and instruct: from the tale...
The Essential H.P. Lovecraft Collection
Over a dozen essential works by H.P. Lovecraft are in one giant collection with an easy to navigate table of contents.
At the Mountains of Madness
The Call of Cthulhu
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Color Out of Space
Darkness
The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath
The Dreams...
Great Short Stories by American Women
| Author | Candace Ward |
| ISBN | 0486287769 |
Embracing a wide variety of subjects, this choice collection of 13 short stories represents the work of an elite group of American women writing in the 19th and 20th centuries. The earliest stories are Rebecca Harding Davis' naturalistic "Life in the Iron Mills" (published in 1861 and predating Émile...
| Author | Paul Hoover |
| ISBN | 0393310906 |
Postmodern American Poetry provides a deep and wide selection-411 poems by 103 poets-of the major poets and movements of the late twentieth century. Included are the leading Beat and New York School poets, the Projectivists, and "Deep Image" poets. Included, too, is the rich array of poetry written...
| Author | Dell Publishing |
| ISBN | 0440379849 |
This will not be a review of stunning creativity.
Like most other reviewers, I felt that "great" was too strong an adjective for most of these plays. In order of preference:
- The Glass Menagerie - Williams did a great job creating tension, atmosphere, hope, and devastation. I liked my mental...
Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy
Smartphones, eBook readers, and tablet computers like the Apple iPad have forever changed the way people access and interact with content. Your customers expect the content you provide them to be adaptive --responding to the device, their location, their situation, and their personalized needs.
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