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Humans express love in countless ways, through physical actions, emotional reactions, or heartfelt words. Capturing the perfect words to show a person's love can be challenging, yet poets have done it for hundreds of years. What is love to a poet? Author Paula Johanson discusses eight poems and poets, with chapters on William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, and five others. Accompanied by biographical information on the poet and end-of-chapter questions for further study, Johanson closely examines each poem, including detailed analysis of form, content, poetic technique, and theme, encouraging readers to develop the tools to understand and appreciate poetry.

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Each of these compact poetry anthologies focuses on one theme (beauty, death, and love, respectively), and discusses eight representative works per topic. A fourth title features nature-themed poems. Poetry selections are largely familiar, like ""She Walks in Beauty"" and ""Annabel Lee"" from Beauty; Love's ""How Do I Love Thee!"" and ""Sonnet 130""; or Death's ""The Charge of the Light Brigade"" and ""Death, Be Not Proud.""

Each of these compact poetry anthologies focuses on one theme (beauty, death, and love, respectively), and discusses eight representative works per topic. A fourth title features nature-themed poems. Poetry selections are largely familiar, like She Walks in Beauty and Annabel Lee from Beauty; Love's How Do I Love Thee! and Sonnet 130; or Death's The Charge of the Light Brigade and Death, Be Not Proud.

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