Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure (Dover Thrift Editions) |
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Author:
Walt Whitman,
George 'Lord Byron' Gordon,
Edna St. Vincent Millay,
Robert Service,
Bliss Carman,
Robert Louis Stevenson,
John Masefield,
Langston Hughes,
Many Others
By Dover Publications
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List Price: $1.50
Our Price: $0.01
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Product Description
Affordable collection of more than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrates travel, adventure and the many real and metaphorical journeys each of us take in the course of our lives. Works by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Service, Bliss Carman, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Masefield, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, many others. Note.
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A poem in your soul wherever you go , 2005-05-02
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., 2000-01-23
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!
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.0080355
EAN: 9780486406466
ISBN: 0486406466
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 80
Publication Date: 1998-12-23
Publisher: Dover Publications
Studio: Dover Publications |
