A Treasury of Poetry for Young People

by Frances Schoonmaker, Francis Bolin

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"This volume combines the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, Carl Sandberg and Walt Whitman with specially commissioned illustrations, a biography of each poet, definitions of the harder vocabulary and a literary commentary. Classic poems to introduce young readers to poetry"--Amazon.com product description.

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A nice composition of all time American Favorites
Reading Level: Grade 4-5
Awards: Agatha Award (2019)

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Burke, Jim (Illustrator)
Dickinson, Emily (Contributor)
Poe, Edgar Allen (Contributor)
Sandburg, Carl (Contributor)
Whitman, Walt (Contributor)

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A Treasury of Poetry for Young People

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Poetry, Fiction and Literature, Tween
DDC/MDS
811.4Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican poetry1861-1899
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PN6109.97 .B65Language and LiteratureLiterature (General)Literature (General)Collections of general literatureGermanPoetry

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