Louis Untermeyer

Selected works by such diverse poets as Frost, E.E. Cummings, Ginsberg, and Leroi Jones reflect the nature and variety of modern poetry.

A collection of poems about nature, animals, fairies, emotions, and other topics by such American and British poets as William Blake, Vachel Lindsay, Carl Sandburg, Ogden Nash, and John Ciardi.

A collection of stories, poems, and excerpts from longer works by various authors about many kinds of animals.

A cat recounts his experiences during each of his nine lives, including the ones as Puss in Boots and Dick Whittington's pet.

Stating that preoccupation with love is as timeless as it is universal, an experienced anthologist proves his point in this wide-ranging collection of love poems from the ancient "Song of songs" through Latin, medieval, Elizabethan, and Victorian poets to today's writers.

A selection of limericks, nonsense verse, tongue twisters, and humorous poetry by well-known writers.

POEMS BY Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Charles E. Carryl (1841- ) Eugene Field (1850-1895) Edwin Markham (1852- ) Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852- ) James Whitcomb Riley (1853-1916) Irwin Russell (1853-1879) George Edward Woodberry (1855- ) Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855-1896) Edith M. Thomas (1854- ) Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856- ) Frank Dempster Sherman (1860-1916) Clinton Scollard (i860- ) Richard Burton (1861- ) Charlotte Perkins S. Gilman (i860- ) Louise Imogen Guiney (i86i- ) Bliss Carman (1861- ) John Kendrick Bangs (1862- ) Oliver Herford (1863- ) Richard Hovey (1864-1900) Madison Cawein (18*65-1914) Richard Le Gallienne ti866- ) Gelett Burgess (1866- ) Bert Leston Taylor (1866- ) William Vaughn Moody (i869-i9io)_ Edgar Lee Masters (1869- ) Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869- ) George Sterling (1869- ) Carolyn Wells (1869- ) Arthur Guiterman (1871- ) T. A. Daly (1871- ) Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) Guy Wetmore Carryl (187J-1904) Amy Lowell (1874- ) Josephine Preston Peabody (1874- ) Anna Hempstead Branch Henry Herbert Knibbs (1874- ) Robert Frost (1875- ) Ridgely Torrence (1875- ) Percy MacKaye (1875- ) William Ellery Leonard (1876- ) Don Marquis (1878- ) Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914) Carl Sandburg (1878- ) Amelia Josephine Burr (1878- ) Grace Hazard Conkling (1878- ) Vachel Lindsay (1879- ) Edwin Meade Robinson (1879- ' ) Alice Corbin Jessie B. Rittenhouse John G. Neihardt (1881- ) Franklin P. Adams (1881- ) Witter Bynner (rSSi- ) Thomas S. Jones, Jr. (1882- ) James Oppenheim (1882- ) Max Eastman (1883- ) Arthur Davison Ficke (1883- ) Sara Teasdale (1884.- ) Eunice Tietjens (1884- ) Ezra Pound (1884- ) Louis Untermeyer (1885- ) Jean Starr Untermeyer (i886- ) Hilda Doolittle (1886- ) John Gould Fletcher (1886- ) Roy Helton {1886- ) John Hall Wheelock (1886- ) William Rose Benet (i886- ) Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) Orrick Johns (1887- ) Alan Seeger (1888-1916) Willard Wattles (1888- ) Haniel Long (1888- ) Margaret Widdemer Conrad Aiken (1889- ) Alfred Kreymborg Maxwell Bodenheim (1892- ) Christopher Morley (1890- ) Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892- ) Stephen Vincent Benet (1898- )

A retelling of fifty-five myths and legends from many countries including the stories of Jason, King Arthur, Joan of Arc, and Chanticleer.

A Yorkshire terrier puppy comes to live in a house with five cats. The little pup is not truly respected by the cats, who try to teach him to be a smart kitten, until he learns who he really is and chases away a growling dog who has frightened his playmates.