Poetry for Students, Vol. 34

Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include:

• "Autobiographia Literaria" by Frank O'Hara
• "The Fly" by William Blake
• "since feeling is first" by e.e. cummings
• "Women" by Alice Walker
• "Uphill" By Christina Rosetti
• And more

Poetry for Students, Vol. 33

Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include:

• "Classic Ballroom Dances" by Charles Simic
• "Elena" by Pat Mora
• "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot
• "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth
• "Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666" By Anne Bradstreet
• And more

Poetry for Students, Vol. 32

Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include:

• "After Apple-Picking" by Robert Frost
• "Grudnow" by Linda Pastan
• "Hanging Fire" by Audre Lord
• "In Response to Executive Order 9066" by Dwight Okita
• "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket" By John Keats
• And more

Poetry for Students, Vol. 31

Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include:

• "The Black Snake" by Mary Oliver
• "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop
• "Lineage" by Margaret Walker
• "Losses" by Randall Jarrell
• "Outside History" By Eavan Boland
• And more

Belying Hardy's diversity, the book is divided into four very different sections: "Time Laughingstocks," a collection of bleakly tragic verses unflinchingly showing Hardy's signature pessimism; "More Love Lyrics," which is self-explanatory and contains some of Hardy's best writing on a subject he excelled at, though the depiction is unsurprisingly dark; "A Set of Country Songs," ballads and ballad-like poems set in Hardy's customary Wessex; and "Pieces Occasional and Various," a catch-all section with both personal and philosophical poems.