Product Description: Includes“The Song of Hiawatha”“Paul Revere’s Ride”“The Courtship of Miles Standish”“The Wreck of the Hesperus”Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the first American poet to successfully express the subjects and sentiments of the New World in classic old-world form and style...read more

Product Description: In this study of Ciardi's life, Edward Cifelli has captured all the deep concern, passion, and thoughtfulness that marked Ciardi's long career in American letters. With care and penetrating detail, Cifelli evokes Ciardi's early childhood in Boston, his Italian heritage, his service as a gunner on a B-29 during World War II, and his years teaching at Harvard and Rutgers...read more

Presents a collection of 450 poems that originally appeared in twenty individual volumes published between 1940 and 1993

The letters of a leading American poet reveal his life and times from his days as a nineteen-year-old student to his death at the age of sixty-nine

Celebrates the fun of mathematics in everyday life, from estimating the amount of bubble bath needed at bathtime, to counting sheep in order to fall asleep, to measuring the dimensions of backyard bugs