THE BEST LOVED POEMS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE – copyright 1936
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Kingston – Books 3 – IMG_1126
Note: Since this book contains so many poems, by so many notable authors, I won’t attempt to list them all. I will just list a few of them:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Robert Browning; Lord Byron; Percy Bysshe Shelly; Sydney King Russell; Sir Edwin Arnold; Josephine Slocum Hunt; Charles Hanson Towne; Ella Wheeler Wilcox; Rudyard Kipling; Edwin Markham; John Keats; Martha Haskell Clark; Phoebe Cary; Edgar A. Guest; Louisa Fletcher; Walter S. Gresham; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Louise Imogen Guiney; James W. Foley: Josiah Gilbert Holland; Silas H. Perkins; Ella Wheeler Wilcox; Thomas Haynes Bayly; Will M. Carleton; Ralph Waldo Emerson; William Cullen Bryant; Mary Carolyn Davies; May Riley Smith; William Croswell Doane; Julia Ward Howe…a short list
Publisher: Doubleday and Company
Contents by Chapter (in brief)
Preface…..vii
Acknowledgements…..viii
Introduction…..xxxiii
1. LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP 2. INSPIRATION 3. POEMS THAT TELL A STORY 4. FAITH AND REVERENCE 5. HOME AND MOTHER 6. CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH 7. PATRIOTISM AND WAR 8. HUMOR AND WHIMSEY 9. MEMORY AND GRIEF 10. NATURE 11. ANIMALS 12. VARIOUS THEMES
INDEX…..649
Hardcover with jacket 670 pages