David Mason

John Frederick Nims

WESTERN WIND is an introduction to the elements of craft that make poetry sing, a superior anthology of classic and contemporary poetry, and a guide for students to poetics, writing about poetry, and critical theory. In this text, two well respected poets bring their love of the craft of poetry into a book that teaches as well as inspires. The text also includes exercises, chapter summaries, games, diagrams, illustrations, and 4-color reproductions of great works of art.

Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry

Selected Poems represents the best of John Frederick Nims's widely aclaimed work over the past thirty years. Selections are from Five Young American Poets, Third Series (1944), The Iron Pastoral (1947), A Fountain in Kentucky (1950), Knowledge of the Evening (1960), and Of Flesh and Bone (1967) and emcompasses the full range of one of contemporary America's foremost poets.

Selected Poems

This collection of classic and contemporary poems also includes exercises, chapter summaries, games, diagrams, illustrations, and 4-colour reproductions of great works of art. This edition incorporates many new poets and expanded coverage of women and ethnic poets.

An Introduction to Poetry

Western Wind

The Six-cornered Snowflake and Other Poems

Henri Peyre

Dudley Fitts

Stanley Burnshaw

45 Modern Poets in a New Presentation, the French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian Poems, Each Rendered Literally in an Interpretative Discussion

The Poem Itself

A broad selection of British and American poetry from 1200 to the present illustrates the development of poetic movements and styles

The Harper Anthology of Poetry

Poems in original languages with English translations.

John Frederick Nims

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