Poetry for Students

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Pub. Date: 2002-12-01
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'' ix
David J. Kelly
Introduction xi
Literary Chronology xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Contributors xix
The Arsenal at Springfield
1(16)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Author Biography
2(1)
Poem Text
2(1)
Poem Summary
3(2)
Themes
5(2)
Style
7(1)
Historical Context
8(2)
Critical Overview
10(1)
Criticism
10(7)
La Belle Dame sans Merci
17(20)
John Keats
Author Biography
17(1)
Poem Text
18(1)
Poem Summary
18(3)
Themes
21(1)
Style
22(1)
Historical Context
22(2)
Critical Overview
24(1)
Criticism
24(13)
The Blue Rim of Memory
37(12)
Denise Levertov
Author Biography
38(1)
Poem Text
38(1)
Poem Summary
39(1)
Themes
40(1)
Style
41(1)
Historical Context
42(1)
Critical Overview
43(1)
Criticism
44(5)
The Cobweb
49(13)
Raymond Carver
Author Biography
50(1)
Poem Text
50(1)
Poem Summary
51(1)
Themes
52(1)
Style
53(1)
Historical Context
53(1)
Critical Overview
54(1)
Criticism
55(7)
Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter
62(12)
Robert Bly
Author Biography
62(1)
Poem Text
63(1)
Poem Summary
63(2)
Themes
65(1)
Style
66(1)
Historical Context
67(1)
Critical Overview
68(1)
Criticism
68(6)
Early in the Morning
74(11)
Li-Young Lee
Author Biography
74(1)
Poem Text
75(1)
Poem Summary
75(1)
Themes
76(2)
Style
78(1)
Historical Context
78(1)
Critical Overview
79(1)
Criticism
79(6)
For Jennifer, 6, on the Teton
85(12)
Richard Hugo
Author Biography
86(1)
Poem Text
86(1)
Poem Summary
86(1)
Themes
87(1)
Style
88(1)
Historical Context
89(1)
Critical Overview
90(1)
Criticism
91(6)
Having it Out with Melancholy
97(14)
Jane Kenyon
Author Biography
98(1)
Poem Text
98(1)
Poem Summary
99(3)
Themes
102(2)
Style
104(1)
Historical Context
104(1)
Critical Overview
105(1)
Criticism
106(5)
I Go Back to May 1937
111(19)
Sharon Olds
Author Biography
112(1)
Poem Text
112(1)
Poem Summary
113(2)
Themes
115(1)
Style
116(1)
Historical Context
117(1)
Critical Overview
118(1)
Criticism
119(11)
Knoxville, Tennessee
130(14)
Nikki Giovanni
Author Biography
130(1)
Poem Summary
131(1)
Themes
132(1)
Style
133(1)
Historical Context
133(2)
Critical Overview
135(1)
Criticism
135(9)
Mind
144(14)
Jorie Graham
Author Biography
145(1)
Poem Text
145(1)
Poem Summary
146(1)
Themes
147(1)
Style
148(1)
Historical Context
148(1)
Critical Overview
149(1)
Criticism
150(8)
On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three
158(15)
John Milton
Author Biography
158(1)
Poem Text
159(1)
Poem Summary
160(1)
Themes
160(2)
Style
162(1)
Historical Context
162(2)
Critical Overview
164(1)
Criticism
164(9)
Poetry
173(17)
Marianne Moore
Author Biography
174(1)
Poem Summary
174(2)
Themes
176(2)
Style
178(1)
Historical Context
178(1)
Critical Overview
179(1)
Criticism
180(10)
The Rhodora
190(14)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author Biography
190(1)
Poem Text
191(1)
Poem Summary
191(1)
Themes
192(1)
Style
193(1)
Historical Context
194(1)
Critical Overview
195(1)
Criticism
196(8)
The Singer's House
204(16)
Seamus Heaney
Author Biography
205(1)
Poem Text
205(1)
Poem Summary
206(2)
Themes
208(1)
Style
209(1)
Historical Context
210(2)
Critical Overview
212(1)
Criticism
213(7)
Wild Swans
220(15)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Author Biography
221(1)
Poem Text
221(1)
Poem Summary
221(1)
Themes
222(1)
Style
223(1)
Historical Context
224(1)
Critical Overview
225(1)
Criticism
226(9)
Glossary 235(20)
Cumulative Author/Title Index 255(6)
Cumulative Nationality/Ethnicity Index 261(6)
Subject/Theme Index 267(6)
Cumulative Index of First Lines 273(6)
Cumulative Index of Last Lines 279

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