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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: December 23, 1998
Publisher: Dover Publications
Sales Rank: 91647
Studio: Dover Publications
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Product Description:
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, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, many others. Note.
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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 ... Read More
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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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