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The Poets' Corner: The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family
John Lithgow · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorThe Top 500 Poems
William Harmon · 1,132 pages
The pop title is right out of Billboard (the publisher must think poetry needs all the crossover it can get), but the collection is quite terrific--not necessarily the greatest poems (best to avoid that can of worms), but the 500 English-language poems that have appealed most often to 400 contemporary editors, critics, and poets for inclusion in their own widely disparate anthologies, which were i
Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath
Elise Paschen, Rebekah Presson Mosby · 352 pages
In 2001, Sourcebooks MediaFusion reinvigorated the way Americans experience poetry with Poetry Speaks, a book and three-CD combination featuring noted poets from Tennyson to Plath reading their own work. This remarkable anthology, a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a New York Times extended list bestseller, was lauded by Publishers Weekly as having "the potential to draw more readers to poetry tha
The Best Loved Poems of the American People
Hazel Felleman · 670 pages
An anthology of excellent poetry, much of which is best read aloud
The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry
Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes · 498 pages
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost
Harold Bloom · 1,008 pages
The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology
Faubion Bowers · 96 pages
Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure
The American Poetry and Literacy Project, Edna St. Vincent Millay · 80 pages
Norton Anthology of Poetry
Alexander W. Allison · 1,479 pages
Offers over 1400 poems by more than 200 poets written in English from early medieval time to the present.
Six Centuries of English Poetry from Tennyson to Chaucer: Typical Selections from the Great Poets (1892)
James Baldwin
Good Poems for Hard Times
Charles Bukowski, Robert Burns, Hayden Carruth, Raymond Carver, Billy Collins, Noel Coward, Carl Dennis, E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Dobyns, Fleur Adcock, John Donne, Rita Dove, Stephen Dunn, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Frost, Erica Funkhouser, Donald Hall, Patricia Hampl, Thomas Hardy · 356 pages
From the beloved creator of A Prairie Home Companion, a timely, thoughtful collection of poems that provide solace and wisdomWhen Garrison Keillor published Good Poems, he touched a chord in readers across America. The anthology of poems he selected for their "wit, their simplicity, their passion, and their utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with" inspired thousands
Ain't I a Woman! A Book of Women's Poetry from Around the World
Illona Linthwaite · 224 pages
The Portable Dante
Dante Alighieri · 662 pages
Includes "The Divine Comedy," "The New Life," and other selected poems, prose, and letters accompanied by biographical and introductory sections.
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer · 506 pages
A collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly in verse, although some are in prose) are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. In a long list of works, including Troilus and Criseyde, Hous
Penguin's Poems for Life
Laura Barber · 416 pages
Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the "seven ages" of a human life, this new anthology brings together the best-loved poems in English to inspire, comfort and delight readers for a lifetime. Beginning with babies, the book is divided into sections on childhood, growing up, making a living and making love, family life, getting older, and approaching death, ending with poems of mour
World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others
Candace Ward · 64 pages
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century
Stephen Greenblatt, James Simpson, Jon Stallworthy, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Jack Stillinger, Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, Lawrence Lipking, Jahan Ramazani, Alfred David, Carol T. Christ, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Catherine Robson, James Noggle, George M. Logan · 2,877 pages