A classic that revolutionized the way children are taught to read and write poetry. The celebrated poet Kenneth Koch conveys the imaginative splendor of great poetry-by Blake, Donne, Stevens, Lorca, and others-and then shows how it maybe taught so as to help children write poetry of their own. For this edition, the author has written a new introduction and a special afterword for teachers.

Introduction: Teaching Great Poetry to Children Introduction  #2 (1990)   *TEN LESSONS*   Chapter One. WILLIAM BLAKE The Tyger   Chapter Two. ROBERT HERRICK The Argument of His Book   Chapter Three. JOHN DONNE A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning   Chapter Four. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Songs   Chapter Five. WALT WHITMAN from Song of Myself sections 1 and 2   Chapter Six. WALLACE STEVENS Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird   Chapter Seven. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS This Is Just to Say; The Locust Tree in Flower; Between Walls   Chapter Eight. FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA Romance Sonambulo; Arbole, Arbole   Chapter Nine. JOHN ASHBERY Into the Dusk-Charged Air   Chapter Ten. ARTHUR RIMBAUD Voyelles   *ANTHOLOGY* Introduction to the Anthology    AUTHOR UNKNOWN Cuckoo Song The Irish Dancer DANTE ALIGHIERI Sonetto / Sonnet   AUTHOR UNKNOWN The Demon Lover Lord Randal   SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Sonnet   CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE The Passionate Shepherd to His Love   WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Over Hill, over Dale Under the Greenwood Tree Aubade Orpheus with His Lute Sonnet   ROBERT HERRICK Delight in Disorder How Violets Came Blew How Roses Came Red How Marigolds Came Yellow   GEORGE HERBERT Heaven   THOMAS CAREW A Song   WILLIAM BLAKE The Lamb The Sick Rose   SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Kubla Khan    GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage   PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Ode to the West Wind   JOHN KEATS Ode on a Grecian Urn   ROBERT BROWNING Home Thoughts, from Abroad   WALT WHITMAN from Song of Myself section 15 from Song of Myself section 26   EMILY DICKINSON   I Never Saw a Moor   GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS God's Grandeur   ARTHUR RIMBAUD Fleurs / Flowers   WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Who Goes with Fergus?   GUILLAUME APOLLI NAIRE Coeur Couronne et Miroir / Heart Crown and Mirror   D. H. LAWRENCE The White Horse Trees in the Garden Humming-Bird   RAINER MARIA RILKE Der Knabe / The Boy Aus einer Kindheit / From a Childhood   WALLACE STEVENS Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock Bantams in Pine-Woods   MARIANNE MOORE The Wood-Weasel   LÉOPOLD SÉDAR SENGHOR Je veux dire ton nom / I Want to Say Your Name   ELIZABETH BISHOP Cirque d'Hiver   GABRIEL OKARA Piano and Drums   FRANK O'HARA Les Étiquettes Jaunes A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island   JOHN ASHBERY The Painter   Four Chinese Poems       CH'U YUAN     In Praise of the Orange Tree       AUTHOR UNKNOWN     Oath of Friendship       PO CHU-I     Eating Bamboo Shoots       HAN-SHAN     Cold Mountain Poems   Five Japanese Poems       SHIKI     What a wonderful day!       ISSA     Wild goose       RYOTA     No one spoke       BASHO     The old pond     With what voice   Two African Tribal Poems       The Magnificent Bull     Song for the Sun That Disappeared behind the Rainclouds   Three American Indian Poems       Dawn Song     Love-Charm Song     The War God's Horse Song   SOME POEMS FROM SWAZILAND   Afterword (Mainly for Teachers) Bibliographical Note Author and Title Index of Adult Poems Subject Index of Adult Poems