Description
The 126 poems in this collection of 19th- and 20th-century British and American verse range from Edna St. Vincent Millay’s, “Renascence” and Edward Lear’s, “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat,” to James Whitcomb Riley’s, “When the Frost is on the Punkin.” Famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman, and Frost are well represented, as are less well-known poets and poems, such as John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields” and Ernest Thayer’s “Casey at the Bat.” Includes 10 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.Lexile Measure:/ NPCopyright 1992. Paperback, 224 pages, 5 x 8 inches.
