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Mashing up poems written across his decades-long career as a writer, Langston Hughes's Selected Poems is a montage of fast-moving images that alternately capture the melancholy and the resilience of Black social life in America during the twentieth century's first half. The collection is divided into thirteen sections that familiarize readers ...
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During his lifetime, from 1819 to 1892, it went through nine editions. Today it is regarded as a landmark of American literature. This volume contains 24 poems from Leaves of Grass, offering a generous sampling of Whitman's best and most representative verses.
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Selected Poems includes many of her best-loved poems, including "The Jerboa," "No Swan So Fine," "The Steeple-Jack," and "To a Snail." Also included in the volume, is her famous lyric "Poetry," which begins: I, too, dislike it.
Selected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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This volume contains a rich selection from the most creative phase of his life, including extracts from his masterpiece, The Prelude, and the best-loved of his shorter poems such as ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’, ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’, ‘Lucy Gray’, and ‘Michael’.
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Jul 3, 2006 · Selected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton is a long-overdue retrospective of one of America’s most important Black poets.
