The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems

The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems
Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 98
Release: 1999
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0195123735

An anthology of American poems, is arranged chronologically, from colonial alphabet rhymes to Native American cradle songs to contemporary poems. 50 illustrations, 20 in color.

Oxford Book of Poetry for Children

Oxford Book of Poetry for Children
Author: Edward Blishen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 167
Release: 1996
Genre: Children's poetry
ISBN: 9780192760586

A collection of poems by English poets.

The Oxford Book of American Poetry

The Oxford Book of American Poetry
Author: David Lehman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 1193
Release: 2006
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 019516251X

Redefines the great canon of American poetry from its origins in the 17th century right up to the present.

The Oxford Book of Comic Verse

The Oxford Book of Comic Verse
Author: John Gross
Publisher: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780199561612

From limericks to social satire, The Oxford Book of Comic Verse offers a remarkable collection of outstanding light poetry. John Gross has brought together the finest writers in the history of the English language - from Chaucer and Skelton to Shakespeare and Swift, Lord Byron to Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson to John Updike, as well as witty song lyrics from such artists as Irving Berlin and Cole Porter - offering delightful examples of their comic verse. Drawing on many different types of verse, including epigrams, street ballads, advertising jingles, clerihew, music-hall lyrics, and the doubledactyl of the calypso, this highly entertaining collection offers an exceptionally wide range of comic pleasures. The poems are by turns subtle, down-to-earth, macabre, ingenious, acerbic, ribald, and cheerful. Written to amuse, they call forth laughter and delight in equal measure. Compiled by one of our finest critics and anthologists, this reissue boasts a stylish new design and a fresh contemporary feel.

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 788
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780195092622

This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.

The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse

The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse
Author: Stewart Brown
Publisher: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Caribbean Area
ISBN: 9780199561599

The Caribbean has produced one of the most vigorous and exciting bodies of poetry of the last one hundred year. The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse is the only contemporary anthology to present the best of the English-language poetry of the region alongside selections from the poetry of boththe French and Spanish Caribbean. Featuring a range of established poets from Derek Walcott to Jesus Cos Causse, Olive Senior to Aime Cesaire, as well as exciting new voices, this is a rich and challenging book.

The Oxford Book of Essays

The Oxford Book of Essays
Author: John Gross
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 680
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0199556555

The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch--though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many others, are on display in The Oxford Book of Essays. The most wide-ranging collection of its kind to appear for many years, it includes 140 essays by 120 writers: classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favorites, recent examples that deserve to be better known. A particularly welcome feature is the amount of space allotted to American essayists, from Benjamin Franklin to John Updike and beyond. This is an anthology that opens with wise words about the nature of truth, and closes with a consideration of the novels of Judith Krantz. Some of the other topics discussed in its pages are anger, pleasure, Gandhi, Beau Brummell, wasps, party-going, gangsters, plumbers, Beethoven, potato crisps, the importance of being the right size, and the demolition of Westminster Abbey. It contains some of the most eloquent writing in English, and some of the most entertaining.