Familiar poems, annotated / Isaac Asimov.
"Thirty-seven familiar poems, annotated by Isaac Asimov in his own inimitably informative and entertaining way--listed in chronological order of the key historical events described in the poems"--Dust jacket.
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| Other title: | Brian E. Lebowitz Collection of 20th Century Jewish American Literature. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Donor: | Lebowitz copy 2 gift of Brian E. Lebowitz. |
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Garden City, N.Y. :
Doubleday,
1977.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The destruction of Sennacherib / George Gordon Byron
- The vision of Belshazzar / George Gordon Byron
- Alexander's feast / John Dryden
- Antony to Cleopatra / William Haines Lytle
- The angels' song / Edmund Hamilton Sears
- Boadicea / William Cowper
- The Pied Piper of Hamlin / Robert Browning
- Bruce to his men at Bannockburn / Robert Burns
- Lepanto / Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- The " revenge" / Alfred Tennyson
- The landing of the pilgrim fathers / Felicia Dorothea Hemans
- On the late massacre in Piedmont / John Milton
- The deacon's masterpiece / Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson
- On the extinction of the Venetian Republic / William Wordsworth
- Incident of the French camp / Robert Browning
- The star-spangled banner / Francis Scott Key
- On first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats
- A visit from Saint Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore
- Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes
- The Helen / Edgar Allan Poe
- Anne Rutledge / Edgar Lee Masters
- The charge of the Light Brigade / Alfred Tennyson
- Maryland, my Maryland / James Ryder Randall
- Battle-hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe
- Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier
- O captain! My captain! / Walt Whitman
- Invictus / William Ernest Henley
- The modern major-general / William Schwenk Gilbert
- The new Colossus / Emma Lazarus
- Recessional / Rudyard Kipling
- Cargoes / John Masefield
- Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson
- In Flanders fields / John McCrae
- Fire and ice / Robert Frost.