Poetry for Students

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Pub. Date: 2001-05-01
Publisher(s): Gale / Cengage Learning
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Summary

This series is designed specifically to meet the curricular needs of high school and undergraduate college students studying poetry. A quick but information-rich reference source, each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of 16 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied.

Table of Contents

Guest Foreword ``Just a Few Lines on a Page'' x
David J. Kelly
Introduction xii
Literary Chronology xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Contributors xix
Anorexic
1(15)
Eavan Boland
Author Biography
2(1)
Poem Text
2(1)
Poem Summary
3(2)
Themes
5(2)
Style
7(1)
Historical Context
7(2)
Critical Overview
9(1)
Criticism
10(6)
An Arundel Tomb
16(13)
Philip Larkin
Author Biography
17(1)
Poem Text
17(1)
Poem Summary
18(1)
Themes
19(2)
Style
21(1)
Historical Context
21(2)
Critical Overview
23(1)
Criticism
24(5)
The Base Stealer
29(14)
Robert Francis
Author Biography
30(1)
Poem Text
30(1)
Poem Summary
30(1)
Themes
31(1)
Style
32(1)
Historical Context
33(2)
Critical Overview
35(1)
Criticism
35(8)
The Czar's Last Christmas Letter. A Barn in the Urals
43(12)
Norman Dubie
Author Biography
44(1)
Poem Text
44(1)
Poem Summary
45(2)
Themes
47(1)
Style
47(1)
Historical Context
48(1)
Critical Overview
49(1)
Criticism
50(5)
Filling Station
55(22)
Elizabeth Bishop
Author Biography
56(1)
Poem Text
57(1)
Poem Summary
57(1)
Themes
58(2)
Style
60(1)
Historical Context
60(2)
Critical Overview
62(1)
Criticism
63(14)
For Jean Vincent D'abbadie, Baron St.-Castin
77(14)
Alden Nowlan
Author Biography
78(1)
Poem Text
78(1)
Poem Summary
78(2)
Themes
80(1)
Style
81(1)
Historical Context
82(1)
Critical Overview
83(1)
Criticism
84(7)
A Grafted Tongue
91(13)
John Montague
Author Biography
92(1)
Poem Text
92(1)
Poem Summary
93(1)
Themes
94(1)
Style
95(1)
Historical Context
96(2)
Critical Overview
98(1)
Criticism
98(6)
Having a Coke with You
104(15)
Frank O'Hara
Author Biography
105(1)
Poem Text
105(1)
Poem Summary
106(1)
Themes
107(1)
Style
108(1)
Historical Context
108(1)
Critical Overview
109(1)
Criticism
109(10)
Hope Is a Tattered Flag
119(14)
Carl Sandburg
Author Biography
120(1)
Poem Text
120(1)
Poem Summary
121(1)
Themes
122(1)
Style
123(1)
Historical Context
123(1)
Critical Overview
124(1)
Criticism
125(8)
The Lamb
133(15)
William Blake
Author Biography
133(1)
Poem Text
134(1)
Poem Summary
135(2)
Themes
137(1)
Style
138(1)
Historical Context
138(1)
Critical Overview
139(1)
Criticism
140(8)
maggie and milly and molly and may (by e. e. cummings)
148(20)
Author Biography
149(1)
Poem Text
149(1)
Poem Summary
150(2)
Themes
152(1)
Style
153(1)
Historical Context
154(2)
Critical Overview
156(1)
Criticism
156(12)
My Mother Pieced Quilts
168(16)
Teresa Palomo Acosta
Author Biography
168(1)
Poem Text
169(1)
Poem Summary
169(2)
Themes
171(2)
Style
173(1)
Historical Context
173(2)
Critical Overview
175(1)
Criticism
175(9)
On Freedom's Ground
184(17)
Richard Wilbur
Author Biography
185(1)
Poem Text
186(1)
Poem Summary
187(3)
Themes
190(1)
Style
191(1)
Historical Context
192(2)
Critical Overview
194(1)
Criticism
194(7)
The Rape of the Lock
201(26)
Alexander Pope
Author Biography
202(1)
Poem Text
202(7)
Poem Summary
209(5)
Themes
214(1)
Style
215(1)
Historical Context
216(1)
Critical Overview
217(1)
Criticism
218(9)
A Tall Man Executes a Jig
227(13)
Irving Layton
Author Biography
228(1)
Poem Text
228(1)
Poem Summary
229(4)
Themes
233(1)
Style
234(1)
Historical Context
235(1)
Critical Overview
235(1)
Criticism
236(4)
Wilderness Gothic (by Al Purdy)
240(21)
Author Biography
241(1)
Poem Text
241(1)
Poem Summary
242(1)
Themes
243(1)
Style
244(1)
Historical Context
245(1)
Critical Overview
246(1)
Criticism
246(15)
Author/Title Index 261(6)
Cumulative Nationality/Ethnicity Index 267(4)
Subject/Theme Index 271(6)
Cumulative Index of First Lines 277(4)
Cumulative Index of Last Lines 281

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