NARRATIVE POETRY

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Multiple Illustrator. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF w/trace wear & light discoloration to back. PO name to fEP. 104 pgs. Chosen for supplementary school readings. Anthology of 30 narrative poems, or, story telling in verse including Jesse James (Benet), Cinderella (Sexton), The Ballad of Father Gilligan (Yeats), and Malcolm X - An Autobiography (Neal). In this 1973 illustrated volume, selections that have been recorded are circled in red on contents page, separately available for order from Narrative Poetry, the Listening Library. German born, editor & poet Peter F. Neumeyer (1929 -) taught one of the first literary courses on children's books at Harvard in the late 1960s, and since then at many institutions of higher learning as well besides publishing in the field, w/author E.B. White (The Annotated Charlotte's Web), and, in collaboration w/illustrator & friend Edward Gorey on three books.