Trade paperback edition in good condition. Some wear to cover.
This outstanding anthology of short verse offers poetry lovers an impressive sampling of more than 150 masterpieces spanning over 400 years of English and American literary history. Although short in length (the longest are 24 lines, most 16 lines or less), these poems are long on beauty, power, imagination, and originality.
Included are such memorable compositions as John Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud,” Shakespeare’s “When in disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes,” John Milton’s “On His Blindness,: William Blake’s “The Tyger,” Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” Byron’s “ She Walks in Beauty,” Shelly’s “Ozymandias,” as well as works by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manly Hopkins, Amy Lowell, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Dylan Thomas, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and many others.
Attractive and inexpensive, this compilation of carefully chosen verse contains many of the most loved, most anthologized poems in the English language. Students, teachers, and any lover of great poetry will treasure this splendid collection.
Read Alikes for Great Short Poems: 100 Best-Loved Poems (Dover Thrift Editions); English Romantic Poetry (Dover Thrift Editions); Favorite Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Dover Thrift Edition)
Trade paperback edition in good condition. Some wear to cover.
This outstanding anthology of short verse offers poetry lovers an impressive sampling of more than 150 masterpieces spanning over 400 years of English and American literary history. Although short in length (the longest are 24 lines, most 16 lines or less), these poems are long on beauty, power, imagination, and originality.
Included are such memorable compositions as John Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud,” Shakespeare’s “When in disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes,” John Milton’s “On His Blindness,: William Blake’s “The Tyger,” Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” Byron’s “ She Walks in Beauty,” Shelly’s “Ozymandias,” as well as works by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manly Hopkins, Amy Lowell, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Dylan Thomas, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and many others.
Attractive and inexpensive, this compilation of carefully chosen verse contains many of the most loved, most anthologized poems in the English language. Students, teachers, and any lover of great poetry will treasure this splendid collection.
Read Alikes for Great Short Poems: 100 Best-Loved Poems (Dover Thrift Editions); English Romantic Poetry (Dover Thrift Editions); Favorite Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Dover Thrift Edition)
ISBN 978-0-486-41105-7
Paul Negri (Editor)
2000
