Death poetry
Subtitle: "Death, be not proud"
By: Stephanie Buckwalter
Series: Pure Poetry
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Berkeley Heights, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780766042575; 9781464404573; 9781464512483; 9781464612480; 9780766058804
Subjects: Poetry; Juvenile literature; History and criticism; Death in literature; Elegiac poetry
Description: "Explores death poetry, including famous American and European poets and their poems, as well as literary criticism, poetic technique, explication, and prompts for further study"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 'Death, be not proud' / John Donne (1572-1631); title: 'We are seven' / William Wordsworth (1770-1850); title: 'No coward soul is mine' / Emily Bronte (1818-1848); title: 'Good-by' / Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882); title: 'The charge of the light brigade' / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892); title: 'Vigil strange I kept on the field one night' / Walt Whitman (1819-1892); title: 'Because I could not stop for death' / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886); title: 'To an athlete dying young' / A. E. Housman (1859-1936).