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Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure (Paperback)

Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure By The American Poetry &. Literacy Project (Editor) Cover Image
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Most of us, at one time or another, have experienced wanderlust. For many, the desire to explore is almost irresistible. Now for devotees of poetry, and for those who long for the open road, this highly affordable collection contains a rich selection of poems about travel and adventure.
You'll find more than 90 poems by 50 American and British masters (mainly from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries), including Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Service, Bliss Carman, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Masefield, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Claude McKay, Christina Rossetti, and other fellow travelers. Their poems celebrate the real and metaphorical journeys each of us takes in the course of our lives towards love, discovery, loss, leaving the nest, and coming home.
Whatever your mode of transportation, and wherever you are going, take this literary traveling companion with you for hours of reading enjoyment and insight into the road that lies ahead.
Product Details
ISBN: 9780486406466
ISBN-10: 0486406466
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication Date: December 23rd, 1998
Pages: 80
Language: English
Series: Dover Thrift Editions