| Author | : Donald Hall |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 98 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0195123735 |
An anthology of American poems, is arranged chronologically, from colonial alphabet rhymes to Native American cradle songs to contemporary poems. 50 illustrations, 20 in color.
| Author | : Neil Philip |
| Publisher | : Oxford Books of Verse |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Children's poetry, American |
| ISBN | : |
An anthology of poetry written for children.
| Author | : Edward Blishen |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 167 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Children's poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780192760586 |
A collection of poems by English poets.
| Author | : Stewart Brown |
| Publisher | : Oxford Books of Prose & Verse |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Caribbean Area |
| ISBN | : 9780199561599 |
The Caribbean has produced one of the most vigorous and exciting bodies of poetry of the last one hundred year. The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse is the only contemporary anthology to present the best of the English-language poetry of the region alongside selections from the poetry of boththe French and Spanish Caribbean. Featuring a range of established poets from Derek Walcott to Jesus Cos Causse, Olive Senior to Aime Cesaire, as well as exciting new voices, this is a rich and challenging book.
| Author | : John Gross |
| Publisher | : Oxford Books of Prose & Verse |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 9780199561612 |
From limericks to social satire, The Oxford Book of Comic Verse offers a remarkable collection of outstanding light poetry. John Gross has brought together the finest writers in the history of the English language - from Chaucer and Skelton to Shakespeare and Swift, Lord Byron to Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson to John Updike, as well as witty song lyrics from such artists as Irving Berlin and Cole Porter - offering delightful examples of their comic verse. Drawing on many different types of verse, including epigrams, street ballads, advertising jingles, clerihew, music-hall lyrics, and the doubledactyl of the calypso, this highly entertaining collection offers an exceptionally wide range of comic pleasures. The poems are by turns subtle, down-to-earth, macabre, ingenious, acerbic, ribald, and cheerful. Written to amuse, they call forth laughter and delight in equal measure. Compiled by one of our finest critics and anthologists, this reissue boasts a stylish new design and a fresh contemporary feel.
| Author | : Philip Larkin |
| Publisher | : Oxford Books of Verse |
| Total Pages | : 700 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : English poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780198121374 |
Anthology of about 600 poems from more than 200 twentieth century English poets.
| Author | : John Gross |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 680 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0199556555 |
The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch--though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many others, are on display in The Oxford Book of Essays. The most wide-ranging collection of its kind to appear for many years, it includes 140 essays by 120 writers: classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favorites, recent examples that deserve to be better known. A particularly welcome feature is the amount of space allotted to American essayists, from Benjamin Franklin to John Updike and beyond. This is an anthology that opens with wise words about the nature of truth, and closes with a consideration of the novels of Judith Krantz. Some of the other topics discussed in its pages are anger, pleasure, Gandhi, Beau Brummell, wasps, party-going, gangsters, plumbers, Beethoven, potato crisps, the importance of being the right size, and the demolition of Westminster Abbey. It contains some of the most eloquent writing in English, and some of the most entertaining.
