A poetry series designed to introduce young readers to the masterpieces of celebrated poets, the selections of which have been thoughtfully chosen and carefully annotated by top academic editors. Series includes hardcover originals and paperback reprints.
Huliska-Beiths smiling, rubber-limbed figures dance through vertiginously tilted, brightly colored minimalist settings As a presentation of Lears better-known poems, this makes a thoughtand laughprovoking bridge.Booklist
Academic editor Edward Mendelson is the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia and has taught at Harvard and Yale. He has numerous books and articles to his credit, has won such prestigious grants as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and is Literary Executor of the estate of poet W.H. Auden. Illustrator Laura Huliska-Beith graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute. She currently lives in Kansas City.
