Name: You Can Hear the Ocean: An Anthology of Classic and Current Poetry
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Author: Hult, Gene ; Yeats, William Butler ; Dickinson, Emily
ISBN: 9781733538091

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You Can Hear the Ocean: An Anthology of Classic and Current Poetry

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English

Pages

160

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

20.3 x 12.7 x 1.1 cm

Weight

0.28 kg.

ISBN13

9781733538091

Synopsis "You Can Hear the Ocean: An Anthology of Classic and Current Poetry"

Since the dawn of language, poets have celebrated the majestic immensity of Earth's oceans, the powerful waters that create and destroy, the intense drama and soothing gentleness of waves, the dangerous voyages to distant shores, and the indelible sensory memories set on shifting sandy beaches drenched in sunshine. This collection joins the verse of renowned poets with the voices of select modern writers, all inspired by the ceaseless splendor of the sea. Includes a reading guide for teachers and book groups, and biographies of the poets inside. Classic Dante Alighieri Joseph Auslander Thomas Lovell Beddoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning George Shepard Burleigh Lord Byron Bliss Carman Stephen Crane H. D. Emily Dickinson A. E. Ralph Waldo Emerson Charlotte Perkins Gilman Arthur Guiterman Thomas Hardy Sadakichi Hartmann Nathaniel Hawthorne Rudyard Kipling Thomas S. Jones, Jr. D. H. Lawrence Eugene Lee-Hamilton Henry Wadsworth Longfellow John Masefield Edna St. Vincent Millay Marianne Moore Thomas Moore John Boyle O'Reilly Eva L. Ogden Ezra Pound Rainer Maria Rilke Dante Gabriel Rossetti Alan Seeger William Shakespeare John Sterling Wallace Stevens Robert Louis Stevenson Sara Teasdale Alfred, Lord Tennyson Walt Whitman Oscar Wilde William Wordsworth William Butler Yeats Current Joel Allegretti Carol Alena Aronoff Janet Barry Sidney Bending Ben Bever Jenny Blackford Eloise Bruce R. T. Castleberry Bill Cushing Lauren Davis Elizabeth Ruth Deyro Agnieszka Filipek Marj Hahne David Holper Gene Hult Clarissa Jakobsons Marjorie Maddox Paul Magrs Lucinda Marshall Stephen McGuinness Leah Mueller Ciarán Parkes Winston Plowes Suzanne S. Rancourt Meg Smith Alec Solomita Alison Stone Larry D. Thacker Lynne Viti

Emily Dickinson

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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Amherst, Massachusetts, December 10, 1830 - Amherst, May 15, 1886) was an American poetess, her passionate poetry has placed her in the small pantheon of fundamental American poets alongside Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Walt Whitman

Dickinson came from a prestigious family and had strong ties to her community, though she spent much of her life secluded in her home. After studying for seven years at Amherst Academy, she briefly attended the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family home in Amherst

In the privacy of her home, Dickinson was a prolific poet; however, during her lifetime, not even a dozen of her nearly 1800 poems were published. The work published during her lifetime was significantly altered by editors to conform to the poetic rules and conventions of the time. Nevertheless, Dickinson's poems are unique compared to those of her contemporaries: they contain short lines, generally lack titles, feature imperfect consonant rhymes [half rhyme], and unconventional punctuation. Many of her poems focus on themes related to death and immortality, two themes also recurrent in the letters she sent to her friends

Dickinson's acquaintances probably knew of her writings but it was not until after her death, in 1886, when Lavinia, Dickinson's younger sister, discovered the poems Emily had kept and the breadth of her work became evident. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1890 by well-known figures such as Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, although they significantly altered the originals. Scholar Thomas H. Johnson published a complete collection of Dickinson's poetry in 1955, the first of her poetry, mostly unchanged. Despite having a critical and skeptical reception between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Emily Dickinson is almost universally considered one of the most important American poets of all time.

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