| Description |
ix, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
The games -- Races and contests -- Pleasures of the country -- The joys of locomotion -- Instruction in the art -- The road all runners come -- Into lucid air. |
| Summary |
Included are poems that range from memorable newspaper verse to pieces by Pindar, Virgil, Wordsworth, and Yeats; they vary in form from intricate modern verse to simple quatrains; no attempt has been made to include every sport though many are represented. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo. |
| Subject |
Sports -- Poetry.
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Sports. |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Sports poetry.
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Poetry.
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| Added Title |
Sports in poetry and the poetry in sports |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Morrison, Lillian. Sprints and distances. New York, Crowell [1965] (OCoLC)573322770 |
| ISBN |
9780690048407 |
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0690048408 |
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0690765711 |
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9780690765717 |
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