A Treasury Of Poetry For Young People

This volume combines the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Longfellow, Poe, Carl Sandberg and Walt Whitman with specially commissioned illustrations, a biography of each poet, definitions of the harder vocabulary and a literary commentary. Classic poems to introduce young readers to poetry.

Audience
childrens
Length
medium · 286 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked A Treasury Of Poetry For Young People? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked A Treasury Of Poetry For Young People. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Poetry for Young People: Robert Louis Stevenson Shares poetry, homeschool, childrens
  2. Black Stars in a White Night Sky Shares poetry, childrens
  3. Free onlineFree
    Poems of Childhood Shares poetry, childrens
  4. Best-Loved Poems Shares poetry, childrens

“If you want more of the same, start with these.”

  1. O Frabjous Day!
  2. You Come Too
  3. Favorite Poems Old and New
  4. The Arrow Finds Its Mark: A Book of Found Poems

“If it was the poetry that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Tell Me Where It Hurts
  2. Wildly Into the Dark: Typewriter Poems and the Rattlings of a Curious Mind
  3. Her Birth
  4. Simulacra

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath
  2. Poetry for Kids: Emily Dickinson
  3. Poetical Works
  4. Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge