Poetry for students. Volume 1 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry / Marie Rose Napierkowski and Mary K. Ruby, editors ; foreword by David Kelly.

Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c1998.

ISBN: 9781414428468 (electronic book)
1414428464 (electronic book)

Description: xx, 349 p. : ill., photos. ; 29 cm.

Subject: Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. Charge of the light brigade.
Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938. Creation.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. Destruction of Sennacherib.
Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953. Do not go gentle into that good night.
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Harlem.
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939. Irish airman foresees his death.
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962. l(a.
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
Plath, Sylvia. Mirror.
Clifton, Lucille, 1936- Miss Rosie.
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973. Musee des Beaux Arts.
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. My last duchess.
Keats, John, 1795-1821. Ode on a Grecian urn.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Raven.
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963. Red wheelbarrow.
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000. Sonnet-ballad.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnet 130.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Soul selects her own society.
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963. Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening.
Dove, Rita. This life.
Hayden, Robert Earl. Those winter Sundays.
Swing low, sweet chariot.
Poetry Study and teaching.
Poetry History and criticism.
Poetry, Modern 20th century.

Other titles: Gale virtual reference library.

Notes: Each entry contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Contents: The charge of the light brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The creation - James Weldon Johnson -- The destruction of Sennacherib - Lord Byron -- Do not go gentle into that good night - Dylan Thomas -- Harlem - Langston Hughes -- An Irish airman foresees his death - William Butler Yeats -- l(a - e.e. cummings -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T. S. Eliot -- Mirror - Sylvia Plath -- Miss Rosie - Lucille Clifton -- Musee des Beaux Arts - W. H. Auden -- My last duchess - Robert Browning -- Ode on a Grecian urn - John Keats -- The raven - Edgar Allan Poe -- The red wheelbarrow - William Carlos Williams -- The sonnet-ballad - Gwendolyn Brooks -- Sonnet 130 - William Shakespeare -- The soul selects her own society - Emily Dickinson -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening - Robert Frost -- Swing low sweet chariot - Anonymous -- This life - Rita Dove -- Those winter Sundays - Robert Hayden.