The Oxford Book of Local Verses PDF Download

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Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Author: John Holloway
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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This delightful anthology celebrates the largely anonymous but often inventive and gifted authors of local verse. An inmate at Millbank who scratched a few lines about English prisons on the bottom of his dinner-can, or a Kent gunner who petitioned for his discharge in verse. There are verses found on village crosses, fountains, sundials, bells, and caves. The book includes epitaphs and also verses inscribed on moveable objects such as clocks and pottery, silverware and books. Country charms and weather rhymes, children's games and farming songs add to the variety of tone and style.

Author: Gilbert Murray
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Category : Greek poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 668

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Author: Roger Lonsdale
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199560722
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 913

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Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199763321
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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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.

Author: Arthur Quiller-Couch
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Author: Bliss Carman
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 718

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Author: Arthur Quiller-Couch
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
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Author: John Hayward
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1018

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Anthology of some six hundred poems and excerpts by eighty-five poets.

Author: Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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Languages : en
Pages : 1084

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