The Death of the Hat: A Brief History of Poetry in 50 Objects (Hardcover)

from childrenslitpdx

The Death of the Hat is an anthology of poems dating back to the year 400 A.D. The author of the book selected poems specifically about objects, and used them to tell the history of poetry by breaking the book up into different literary periods of the past, leading up to the present. The illustra...

from JPEmmrich5

This is a wonderful collection of 50 poems that span thousands of years beginning in the early middle ages to Contemporary poetry. Poetry by well known poets; Shakespeare, Poe, Whitman, Yeats, Frost and Dickinson just to name a few. The book is broken down by time period the poems were written. B...

from amandabock

I really enjoyed the previous poetry collaborations of Janeczko and Raschka. This one is an ambitious addition. As many have noted, this collection is probably for older kids than A Kick in the Head et al.- more middle school than elementary, and probably for those who are already interested in p...

from Rvalencia

This book was quite interesting, as you go into the book each poem is in time period order. The book starts in 400 A.D.-presesnt days. It was quite interesting as well you get to see how the language develops as time goes along. I enjoyed this book because it came with more if a historical backgr...

from childrenslitpdx

The Death of the Hat is an anthology of poems dating back to the year 400 A.D. The author of the book selected poems specifically about objects, and used them to tell the history of poetry by breaking the book up into different literary periods of the past, leading up to the present. The illustra...