Anthony F. Franco
Donno, Elizabeth Story, Editor.
Andrew Marvell: The Complete Poems
. Great Britain: Penguin, 1983.
The complete poetical works of this seventeenth poet are included in this modernized text. Marvell is an excellent poet to introduce to students concerning his various treatments of love themes.
Dunning, Stephen, Lueders, Edward, and Smith, Hugh, Compilers.
Some Haystacks Don’t Even Have Any Needle
. Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman & Company, 1969.
A very useful anthology of modern poetry grouped into various themes. Easily adaptable to this unit.
Dunning, Stephen.
Teaching Literature to Adolescents
:
Poetry
. Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1966.
Stephen Dunning offers some sound suggestions for the teaching of poetry to students. The book also includes essays by Robert Francis and Philip Booth.
Harrison, G.B., Editor.
Shakespeare: The Complete Works
. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1952.
This text or any number of others that include Shakespeare’s sonnets should be available throughout the implementation of the unit.
Koch, Kenneth and Farrell, Kate.
Sleeping on the Wing
. New York: Vintage Books, 1982.
Koch and Farrell have put together an interesting anthology of modern poetry geared for today’s students.
Koch, Kenneth.
Wishes, Lies, and Dreams
. New York: Perennial Library, 1980.
Koch’s masterpiece should be required reading for any teacher hoping to introduce poetry to students. Teaching suggestions and strategies are excellent. Actual poems written by students are included. This book belongs on the teacher’s desk whenever poetry is introduced in the classroom.
Loban, Walter, Ryan, Margaret, and Squire, James R.
Teaching Language and Literature
. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1969.
This textbook offers some very valid teaching suggestions for the teacher who wishes to use poetry in the English classroom.
Ostriker, Alicia, Editor.
William Blake: The Complete Poems
. Great Britain: Penguin, 1983.
Blake’s “Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience” offer many choices for implementation in this unit.
Perrine, Laurence.
Sound and Sense
. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1963.
Perrine’s work is my companion for the teaching of my unit. The book offers explanations and examples of all forms of figurative language and is very easy to consult.
Scholes, Robert.
Elements of Poetr
y. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Scholes’ book should be read and reread especially by anyone who is introducing poetry to students for the first time in a long while. Scholes puts his readers in a poetic frame of mind with his concise but comprehensive scholarly work.
Smith, A. J., Editor.
John Donne: The Complete English Poems
. Great Britain: Penguin, 1984.
Donne’s sonnets and songs are perfect matchups for many contemporary music lyrics. He is the classic love poet of the seventeenth century.
