100 Best-Loved Poems: Shakespeare, Poe, Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Wordsworth, Yeats, Frost and More

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Philip Smith
Courier Corporation, Apr 4, 2012 - Poetry - 96 pages

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 from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these splendid poems remain evergreen in their capacity to engage our minds and refresh our spirits.
Among them are Marlowe: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"; Shakespeare: "Sonnet XVIII" ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"); Donne: "Holy Sonnet X" ("Death, be not proud"); Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress"; Wordsworth: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"; Shelley: "Ode to the West Wind"; Longfellow: "The Children's Hour"; Poe: "The Raven"; Tennyson: "The Charge of the Light Brigade"; Whitman: "O Captain! My Captain!"; Dickinson: "This Is My Letter to the World"; Yeats: "When You Are Old"; Frost: "The Road Not Taken"; Millay: "First Fig."
Works by many other poets — Milton, Blake, Burns, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Emerson, the Brownings, Hardy, Housman, Kipling, Pound, and Auden among them — are included in this treasury, a perfect companion for quiet moments of reflection.

 

Contents

BALLADS
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THOMAS NASHE 15671601
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BEN JONSON 15721637
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ANDREW MARVELL 16211678
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WILLIAM BLAKE 17571827
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ROBERT BURNS 17591796
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LEIGH HUNT 17841859
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WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT 17941878
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EDGAR ALLAN POE 18091849
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ALFRED LORD TENNYSON 18091892
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GEORGE MEREDITH 18281909
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CHRISTINA ROSSETTI 18301894
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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS 18651939
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CARL SANDBURG 18781967
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Alphabetical List of First Lines
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON 18031882
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