Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Walt Whitman, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure (Dover Thrift Editions)  
published December 23rd 1998 by Dover Publications
binding Paperback
isbn 0486406466   (isbn13: 9780486406466)
pages 80
description Collection of more than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrates travel, adventure and the many real and metaphorical journeys each of u...more
date added
03-31-07



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Nate
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For my thesis research...

Here I discovered Robert Service - a phenomenal poet in my respect. His poems sit beside Walt Whitman's, e.e. cummings, Robert Frost, and even the Bible in this collection. It's a nice menagerie of poems and poets, though very small - about seventy pages total. My only issue with the text is the range of works does not solely focus on the "open road" - there's poems of sea, air, and rail travel too. This would be more aptly titled "Wanderlust: Poem...more
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Not very exciting choices.
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