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Henry Lyman is an American poet, editor, translator, and former host and producer of WFCR's Poems to a Listener, a nationally distributed series of readings and conversations with poets which ran from 1976 to 1994.
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In 1921, she married fellow poet William Whittingham Lyman Jr, and so also became known either as Mrs. W.W. Lyman [5] or Helen Hoyt Lyman. [ 6 ] Early in her career, Hoyt was an Associate Editor of the journal Poetry , and also had numerous articles and poems published within the magazine from 1913 to 1936.
Compiled in an effort to present modern poetry in a way that would appeal to the young, Watermelon Pickle was long a standard in high school curricula, [2] and has been described as a classic. [ 3 ] The anthology consists of 114 poems, including ones by Ezra Pound , Edna St. Vincent Millay and e. e. cummings , but also ones by lesser-known poets.
Understanding Poetry was an American college textbook and poetry anthology by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, first published in 1938. The book influenced New Criticism and went through its fourth edition in 1976. The textbook "widely influenced ... the study of poetry at the college level in America."
Jelly Roll: A Blues is a 2003 poetry collection by Kevin Young. The 208-page book – Young's third – is named for jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton and develops a blues-based collection of love poems, [1] written predominantly in two-line stanzas. [2] In 2003, it was a National Book Award finalist and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. [3]
Usborne Young Reading is a series of books from Usborne Publishing forming part of the Usborne Reading Programme. They are a collection of stories aimed at readers 5 years and above, covering Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 of the English National Curriculum. Series 1 is for beginner readers with simple sentence structure, whilst Series 3 is for ...
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry is a 1973 book by Harold Bloom on the anxiety of influence in writing poetry. It was the first in a series of books that advanced a new "revisionary" or antithetical [ 1 ] approach to literary criticism .