Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure (Dover Thrift Editions) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Walt Whitman, George 'lord Byron' Gordon, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Service, Bliss Carman, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Masefield, Langston Hughes, Many Others
Creator: The American Poetry & Literacy Project
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $1.50
Buy New: $0.01
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 138721
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 80
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5 x 0.3
ISBN: 0486406466
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.0080355
EAN: 9780486406466
ASIN: 0486406466
Publication Date: December 23, 1998
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Product Description
Affordable collection of more than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrates travel, adventure and the many real and metaphorical journeys each of us take in the course of our lives. Works by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Service, Bliss Carman, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Masefield, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, many others. Note.
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A poem in your soul wherever you go May 2, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This collection is divided into three sections, "Songs for the Open Road", "Sea, Rail and Sea", "Home, Rest, and Final Voyages". It contains many of the best- loved poems in the English language, poems not necessarily associated with subjects of Travel and Adventure, though they may touch upon them.
One of the great examples is an Emily Dickinson selection"
"There is no frigate
like a book
To take us
Lands away.
Nor any corvette
like a page
of prancing
Poetry.
This traverse
may the poorest take
Without the oppress
of Toll.
How frugal
is the Chariot
that bears a human soul.
The title poem is from Whitman, and it sets the tone for what should be a highly enjoyable vogage, of mind, heart and soul.
Best book value I know. January 23, 2000
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
It's hard to believe how many of the best poems in English are in this thin little book -- ninety poems for a dollar. I second the action of the Poetry Project in giving it free to lots of people. Buy one for your glove compartment, your office, your study, and your best reader friend!
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