The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (eBook)
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THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY
I Home: Friendship
II Love
III Sorrow and Consolation
IV The Higher Life
V Nature
VI Fancy: Sentiment
VII Descriptive: Narrative
VIII National Spirit
IX Tragedy: Humor
X Poetical Quotations
Each volume has special t.p
v. 1. Of
home, of friendship; introduction: The purpose of poetry, by E. Carman;
introductory essay: Young people and the poets, by W.D.
MacClintock.--v. 2. Love; introductory essay: The future of poetry, by
J.V. Cheney.--v. 3. Sorrow and consolation; [introductory essay] An
interpretor of life, by L. Abbott.--v. 4. The higher life; [introductory
essay] Religion and poetry, by W. Gladden.--v. 5. Nature; [introductory
essay] The poetry of nature, by C.G.D. Roberts.--v. 6. Of fancy, of
sentiment; [introductory essay] The place of poetry in life, by C.F.
Richardson.--v. 7. Descriptive narrative; [introductory essay] What's
the use of poetry, by R. Le Gallienne.--v. 8. National spirit;
[introductory essay] The study of poetry, by F.H. Stoddard.--v. 9. Of
tragedy, of humor; [introductry essay] The old case of poetry in a new
court, by F.A. Gummere.--v. 10. Poetical quotations; [introductory
essay] After all, what is poetry, by J.R. Howard
The second of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection includes a range of famous and influential love poems relating to such topics as admiration; love's nature; love's beginnings; and wooing and winning. It also includes an introductory essay by American poet John Vance Cheney (1848-1922). Summary by Tomas Peter.
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