SPRINTS AND DISTANCES: Sports in Poetry and the Poetry in Sports

by Lillian-Ed. Morrison ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 15, 1965

Selections from this anthology are bound to be turning up at high school athletic banquets all over the country. It ranges from antiquity (Pindar) to the present (Phyllis McGinley) and from the deeply felt (Houseman) to the bemusing/amusing (Nash). Naturally, there is ""Casey at the Bat,"" most imaginatively, there are pieces from Whitman's ""Leaves of Grass."" No sport seems to have been without its singer or rhymester. Excellent browsing.

Pub Date: Oct. 15, 1965

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Crowell

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1965

Categories: NONFICTION