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In times past, Americans with a love of poetry routinely learned by heart dozens of poems - Shakespeare's sonnets, stirring patriotic verse, odes to churchyards and elegies for the departed, the wit of Dorothy Parker and the music of Swinburne or Poe or Yeats. A Poem a Day includes 366 poems old and new, one for each day of the year, worth learning by heart. All share two things in common - they are short enough to learn in a day, and good enough to stand with the great. Poetry of the show more language, from Chaucer to Sylvia Plath. On most pages readers will also find brief, often amusing, always interesting trivia about the poets and their poems. show lessTags
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Very nice. Read them out loud. There are many 'poem a day' books published, this one has excellent selections (at least for the last two months). There are more volumes in this series. This book is actually titled "A Poem A Day".
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- Canonical title
- A Poem a Day
- Disambiguation notice
- Poem A Day is the US edition of Poem for the Day with fifty poems specially selected for US readers.
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- Genres
- Poetry, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 821.008 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures British Poetry English poetry {by more than one author} Modified standard subdivisions Collections of literary texts not limited by time period or kind of form
- LCC
- PR1175 .P595 — Language and Literature English English Literature Collections of English literature
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 2
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