Senior World Poetry

Senior World Literature class is doing a unit on world poets in April (National Poetry Month):

For resources check out the following:

Website:  Poem Hunter  lists 500 top poets, some of their poetry and quotations

Database page:  Gale Ebooks - includes 7 more Poetry for Students books online

MHS Database page: Artemis,  Ebsco ebooks, Ebsco, Infotrac, Proquest will all have information on world poets--search by the selected poet.

Books:

     Poetry for Sudents--several volumes, these books contain a poet biography, poem text and summary, themes, style, historical context and criticism

   Neruda: On the blue shore of silence: poems by Pablo Neruda

   Good Poems: selected by Garrison Keillor

   Roots and Wings

   Selected odes of Pablo Neruda

  The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz

  Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral

  Selected Poems of Jorge Luis Borges

  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

  Classic Poems to Read Aloud