Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This highly praised collection celebrates winter through the voices of some of the world's greatest poets, including William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Wallace Stevens, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Full color.
Table of Contents
Something told the wild geese / Rachel Field -- Oregon winter / Jeanne McGahey -- Moon / Japanese, Anonymous -- Merry note / William Shakespeare -- Snow toward evening / Melville Cane -- from Snow storm / John Clare -- from Snowbound / John Greenleaf Whittier -- from Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Wallace Stevens -- from Winter piece / William Cullen Bryant -- Germ / Ogden Nash -- Cat on a night of snow / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Laughing boy / Richard Wright -- Buck in the snow / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- from Bells / Edgar Allan Poe -- Night / Sara Teasdale -- Winter dark / Lilian Moore -- from Prelude / William Wordsworth -- Velvet shoes / Elinor Wylie -- Skiing / Marchette Chute -- Waiting for birds / David Kherdian -- from Snow in the summer / Thomas Hardy -- Patch of old snow / Robert Frost -- Awful tempest / Emily Dickinson -- from Blossom themes / Carl Sandburg.