Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel & Adventure - Paperback

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Very Good
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Country of Origin
United States
Personalize
No
Type
Paperback
Signed
No
Ex Libris
No
Narrative Type
Fiction
Personalized
No
Original Language
English
Intended Audience
Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed
No
Edition
Dover Thrift
Vintage
No
ISBN
9780486406466
Category

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0486406466
ISBN-13
9780486406466
eBay Product ID (ePID)
324686

Product Key Features

Book Title
Songs for the Open Road : Poems of Travel and Adventure
Number of Pages
80 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Topic
Anthologies (Multiple Authors), General, American / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Genre
Poetry
Author
American Poetry and Literacy Staff
Book Series
Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight
2.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-049683
Dewey Edition
21
Grade From
Ninth Grade
Dewey Decimal
811.008/0355
Synopsis
Most of us, at one time or another, have experienced wanderlust. For many, the desire to explore is almost irresistible. Now for devotees of poetry, and for those who long for the open road, this highly affordable collection contains a rich selection of poems about travel and adventure. You'll find more than 90 poems by 50 American and British masters (mainly from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries), including Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Service, Bliss Carman, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Masefield, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Claude McKay, Christina Rossetti, and other fellow travelers. Their poems celebrate the real and metaphorical journeys each of us takes in the course of our lives towards love, discovery, loss, leaving the nest, and coming home. Whatever your mode of transportation, and wherever you are going, take this literary traveling companion with you for hours of reading enjoyment and insight into the road that lies ahead., More than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrate real and metaphorical journeys. Poems by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, many others.
LC Classification Number
PS595.T75S66 1999

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