Poetry for students
Subtitle: presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry
By: Sara Constantakis, project editor
Series: Gale virtual reference library; Gale virtual reference library
Publisher: Gale
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9781414449524; 9781414421483
Subjects: Study and teaching; History and criticism; Modern Poetry; Poetry
Description: Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
Notes: Each entry contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, criticism, sources and further reading.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: An ancient gesture  -- by Edna St. Vincent Millay; title: The black snake  -- by Mary Oliver; title: The fish  -- by Elizabeth Bishop; title: Fragment 2  -- by Sappho; title: The hippopotamus  -- by Ogden Nash; title: Huswifery  -- by Edward Taylor; title: Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias  -- by Federico Garcia Lorca; title: Lineage  -- by Margaret Walker; title: Losses  -- by Randall Jarrell; title: A noiseless patient spider  -- by Walt Whitman; title: Outside history  -- by Eavan Boland; title: Runagate runagate  -- by Robert Hayden; title: Some people like poetry  -- by Wislawa Szymborska; title: Storm ending  -- by Jean Toomer; title: A tree telling of Orpheus  -- by Denise Levertov; title: The wreck of the Hesperus -- by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.