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Colorful illustrations and poems introduce children to poetry, teaching them about the types of poems and the most popular poets from history. Part One includes nursery rhymes, nonsense verse, Villanelle, Limerick, Haiku, narrative verse, lyric verse, ballad, Pastoral sonnet, free verse, poems peculiar. Part Two poets: Homer; William Shakespeare; John Milton; William Blake; William Wordworth; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Edgar Allan Poe; Emily Dickinson; Walt Whitman; Christina Rossetti; Robert Frost; Robert Louis Stevenson; Rudyard Kipling; Hilaire Belloc; Carl Sandburg; W.H. Auden; Langston Hughes; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Seamus Heaney; Octavio Paz; and Maya Angelou. Contents: book and audio CD with readings of the poems included in the book edited by Michael Driscoll. | |