TY  - BOOK
AU  - Driscoll,Michael
AU  - Hamilton,Meredith
TI  - A child's introduction to poetry: listen while you learn about the magic words that have moved mountains, won battles, and made us laugh and cry 
SN  - 9780762469109
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
KW  - Children's poetry, English
KW  - English poetry
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Collections
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Illustrated works
N1  - Previous edition: 2003; Issued with a detachable poster of the Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll; Includes link to downloadable audio tracks (page 7); Includes bibliographical references; Introducing Professor Driscoll --; Part one; The rhymes and their reasons; Nursery rhymes; Nonsense verse; The villanelle; The limerick; The haiku; Narrative verse; Lyric verse; The ballad; The pastoral; The sonnet; Free verse; Poems peculiar --; Part two; Poetry's greats: rulers of rhyme, legends of the lyric, and superstars of the spoken word; Homer (c. 700-800 BC); William Shakespeare (1564-1616); John Milton (1608-1674); William Blake (1757-1827); William Wordsworth (1770-1850); Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861); Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849); Emily Dickinson (1830-1886); Walt Whitman (1819-1892); Christina Rossetti (1830-1894); Robert Frost (1874-1963); Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894); Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936); Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953); Carl Sandburg (1878-1967); W.H. Auden (1907-1973); Langston Hughes (1902-1967); Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919- ); Seamus Heaney (1939-2013); Octavio Paz (1914-1998); Maya Angelou (1928-2014)
N2  - Poetry can be fun -- especially when we can read it, hear it, and discover its many delights. A Child's Introduction to Poetry joyously introduces kids (and parents) to the greatest poets in history -- from Homer and Shakespeare to Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou -- and provides excellent examples of their work and commentary on what makes it so special and everlasting. The book covers every style of poem, from epics and odes, to nonsense verse and haikus, and is filled with examples of each one
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