Early American Poetry: Beauty in Words

by Stephanie Buckwalter

Book Overview

This collection surveys American poetry from the colonial period through the end of the nineteenth century, including eleven poets. Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Philip Frenau, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman are featured. Shows students how to analyze poetry for greater understanding and enjoyment. Includes...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0766032779
• ISBN13: 9780766032774
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Enslow Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12