Read all about different kinds of poetry, including nursery rhymes, nonsense verse, haikus, ballads, sonnets, free verse and more! Meet famous poets from throughout history including Homer, William Blake, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Hilaire Belloc, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Octavio Paz and Maya Angelou. Listen to all the poems being read on the accompanying audio CD as you follow along with the words in the book.