Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure

by Edna St. Vincent Millay and The American Poetry and Literacy Project

Book Overview

Most of us, at one time or another, have experienced wanderlust. For many, the desire to explore is almost irresistible. Now for devotees of poetry, and for those who long for the open road, this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486406466
• ISBN13: 9780486406466
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.2" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher

Customer Reviews

A poem in your soul wherever you go

This collection is divided into three sections, "Songs for the Open Road", "Sea, Rail and Sea", "Home, Rest, and Final Voyages". It contains many of the best- loved poems in the English language, poems not necessarily associated with subjects of Travel and Adventure, though they may touch upon them. One of the great examples is an Emily Dickinson selection" "There is no frigate like a book To take us Lands away. Nor any corvette like a page of prancing Poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without the oppress of Toll. How frugal is the Chariot that bears a human soul. The title poem is from Whitman, and it sets the tone for what should be a highly enjoyable vogage, of mind, heart and soul.

Best book value I know.

It's hard to believe how many of the best poems in English are in this thin little book -- ninety poems for a dollar. I second the action of the Poetry Project in giving it free to lots of people. Buy one for your glove compartment, your office, your study, and your best reader friend!