A classic that revolutionized the way children are taught to read and write poetry. The celebrated poet Kenneth Koch conveys the imaginative splendor of great poetry--by Blake, Donne, Stevens, Lorca, and others--and then shows how it maybe taught so as to help children write poetry of their own. For this edition, the author has written a new introduction and a special afterword for teachers.
Author(s): Kenneth Koch
Edition: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 1990
Language: English
Pages: 346
Cover......Page 2
Other Books by This Author......Page 3
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Contents......Page 11
Introduction: Teaching Great Poetry to Children......Page 16
Introduction #2 (1990)......Page 46
Ten Lessons......Page 59
Chapter One. William Blake The Tyger......Page 60
Chapter Two. Robert Herrick The Argument of His Book......Page 87
Chapter Three. John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning......Page 96
Chapter Four. William Shakespeare Songs......Page 106
Chapter Five. Walt Whitman from Song of Myself sections 1 and 2......Page 116
Chapter Six. Wallace Stevens Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird......Page 125
Chapter Seven. William Carlos Williams This Is Just to Say; The Locust Tree in Flower; Between Walls......Page 139
Chapter Eight. Federico Garcîa Lorca Romance Sonambulo; Arbole, Arbole......Page 165
Chapter Nine. John Ashbery Into the Dusk-Charged Air......Page 184
Chapter Ten. Arthur Rimbaud Voyelles......Page 199
Anthology......Page 212
Introduction to the Anthology......Page 213
Author Unknown Cuckoo Song......Page 215
The Irish Dancer......Page 217
Dante Alighieri Sonetto / Sonnet......Page 218
Author Unknown The Demon Lover......Page 220
Lord Randal......Page 223
Sir Philip Sidney Sonnet......Page 225
Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to His Love......Page 227
William Shakespeare Over Hill, over Dale......Page 229
Under the Greenwood Tree......Page 231
Aubade......Page 233
Orpheus with His Lute......Page 234
Sonnet......Page 235
Robert Herrick Delight in Disorder......Page 236
How Violets Came Blew......Page 238
How Roses Came Red......Page 239
How Marigolds Came Yellow......Page 240
George Herbert Heaven......Page 241
Thomas Carew A Song......Page 243
William Blake The Lamb......Page 245
The Sick Rose......Page 246
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan......Page 247
George Gordon, Lord Byron from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage......Page 250
Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind......Page 253
John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn......Page 257
Robert Browning Home Thoughts, from Abroad......Page 260
Walt Whitman from Song of Myself section 15......Page 262
from Song of Myself section 26......Page 266
Emily Dickinson I Never Saw a Moor......Page 268
Gerard Manley Hopkins God’s Grandeur......Page 269
Arthur Rimbaud Fleurs / Flowers......Page 271
William Butler Yeats Who Goes with Fergus?......Page 273
Guillaume Apollinaire Coeur Couronne et Miroir / Heart Crown and Mirror......Page 274
D. H. Lawrence The White Horse......Page 277
Trees in the Garden......Page 278
Humming-Bird......Page 279
Rainer Maria Rilke Der Knabe / The Boy......Page 281
Aus einer Kindheit / From a Childhood......Page 284
Wallace Stevens Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks......Page 286
Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock......Page 288
Bantams in Pine-Woods......Page 289
Marianne Moore The Wood-Weasel......Page 291
Léopold Sédar Senghor Je veux dire ton nom / I Want to Say Your Name......Page 293
Elizabeth Bishop Cirque d’Hiver......Page 295
Gabriel Okara Piano and Drums......Page 297
Frank O’Hara Les Étiquettes Jaunes......Page 299
A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island......Page 301
John Ashbery The Painter......Page 305
Ch’u Yuan In Praise of the Orange Tree......Page 308
Author Unknown Oath of Friendship......Page 310
Po Chu-I Eating Bamboo Shoots......Page 311
Han-Shan Cold Mountain Poems......Page 313
Shiki What a wonderful day!......Page 315
Issa Wild goose......Page 316
Ryota No one spoke......Page 317
With what voice......Page 318
The Magnificent Bull......Page 320
Song for the Sun That Disappeared behind the Rainclouds......Page 322
Dawn Song......Page 323
Love-Charm Song......Page 324
The War God’s Horse Song......Page 325
Some Poems From Swaziland......Page 328
Afterword (Mainly for Teachers)......Page 351
Bibliographical Note......Page 359
About the Author......Page 361
