Favorite Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was the most popular American poet of his time, and one of the most famous American poets of all time. It has b... Lees meer

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

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• A group of pilgrims bound for Canterbury Cathedral agree to pass the weary miles by taking turns at storytelling. The travelers ― noble, coarse, jolly... Lees meer

The Song of Hiawatha

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• At the door on summer evenings Sat the little Hiawatha; Heard the whispering of the pine-trees, Sounds of music, words of wonder . . . The infectious ... Lees meer

Copper Sun

Countee Cullen

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• Countee Cullen (1903-46) was an African American poet, playwright, and novelist and a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Copper Sun , a collect... Lees meer

English Romantic Poetry

Stanley Appelbaum

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• Encompassing a broad range of subjects, styles, and moods, English poetry of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is generally classifie... Lees meer

Acrostic Poetry: The First-Ever Anthology

Michael Croland

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• In this first-ever anthology, more than 80 acrostics show the versatility of a storied poetic form that dates back to ancient times. In standard acros... Lees meer

Tulips & Chimneys

E E Cummings

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• Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962), a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a Harvard University graduate, is best known for his rejection of tradit... Lees meer

Essay on Man and Other Poems

Alexander Pope

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• Considered the preeminent verse satirist in English, Alexander Pope (1688-1744) brought wide learning, devastating wit and masterly technique to his p... Lees meer

Dover Beach and Other Poems

Matthew Arnold

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• This superb selection of the poetry of Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) offers rich evidence of the poetic gifts that made him famous in his day, and that c... Lees meer

Paradise Lost

John Milton

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• John Milton's great 17th-century epic draws upon Bible stories and classical mythology to explore the meaning of existence, as understood by people of... Lees meer

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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• One of the great narrative poems in English, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is admired for its fluid meter and masterly structure, accurate observati... Lees meer

Jabberwocky and Other Poems

Lewis Carroll

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• Mathematician, author, photographer, and artist, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898) is best known as the creator of Alice's Adventure... Lees meer

Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach and Other Poems

James Joyce

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• James Joyce (1882-1941) led the vanguard of twentieth-century fiction, and his experimental use of language and stream of consciousness continues to c... Lees meer

Selected Poems

John Milton

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• Best known as the author of the epic poem Paradise Lost, John Milton (1608-74) was also an accomplished writer of shorter verse forms. This treasury p... Lees meer

Christmas Carols

Shane Weller

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• Carolers, choral groups and sing-along enthusiasts will welcome this convenient collection of over 50 of the most popular Christmas carols. Compact, i... Lees meer

100 Best-Loved Poems

Philip Smith

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• Here are some of the most-loved poems in the English language, chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Dating ... Lees meer

War Poems

Siegfried Sassoon

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• At the dawn of World War I, Siegfried Sassoon exchanged his pursuits of cricket, fox-hunting, and romantic verse for army life amid the muddy trenches... Lees meer

Lyric Poems

John Keats

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• One of the greatest English poets, John Keats (1795-1821) created an astonishing body of work before his early death from tuberculosis at the age of 2... Lees meer

Poems and Songs Celebrating America

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• A tribute to the ideals and accomplishments of American history, this anthology features inspiring verse by Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Langston Hugh... Lees meer

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

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• In 1855, Walt Whitman published -- at his own expense -- the first edition of Leaves of Grass , a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influe... Lees meer

Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies

Rainer Maria Rilke

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• During three feverish weeks in 1922, Rainer Maria Rilke composed the 55 sonnets that constitute Sonnets to Orpheus . Inspired by the death of a friend... Lees meer

The Dover Anthology of Bird Poetry

Edited by Nicholas Zachariah Kay, Nicholas Kay

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• Poets have long treated birds as a captivating source of inspiration as metaphors, references, and symbols of death, eternity, life, love, power, reli... Lees meer

Complete Sonnets

William Shakespeare

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• Without a doubt the most important of Shakespeare's nondramatic works, the sonnets have engendered reams of scholarly disputation as to the identity o... Lees meer

Spring and All

William Carlos Williams

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• Heavily influenced by T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," the poems of Spring and All express the author's beliefs about the role and form of art in a mod... Lees meer