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Title: The Top 500 Poems
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| The Top 500 Poems by Columbia University Press A gathering of friends and favourites | Yesterday, I needed to find a copy of Robert Frost's `Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' in order to make sure I was correctly quoting the last verse.
There are a number of books I could have turned to, but this particular book was my first choice. I bought this anthology, about 15 years ago, because I was intrigued to know which poems would be included and on what basis. In a delightful editorial note, William Harmon writes that these are the most anthologized poems in English.
The time span (based on the birth of the poets) is from 1250-1350 (approx) for the anonymous author of the `Cuckoo Song' to 1932 for Sylvia Plath, author of `'Daddy'.
A favourite poem? That will depend entirely on mood and audience. While the Emily Bronte poem included `Remembrance' is not my favourite of hers (my heart has long since been given to `No Coward Soul is Mine') it is another of her passionate, stirring poems. Yesterday, I enjoyed `Ars Poetica' by Archibald MacLeish which starts:
`A poem should be palpable and mute
As a globed fruit.'
But the poem I was searching for in the beginning ends this way:
`The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.'
I recommend this anthology highly to those who would like one collection of significant English poems. May you find, as I did, both old acquaintances and new friends within its pages.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
| | The Top 500 Poems by Columbia University Press a fine collection | | it delivers what it promises; perhaps a few more words of commentary would have enlightened it further. | | The Top 500 Poems by Columbia University Press Best of the Best, Window on Poiesis | | Who besides Shakespeare are the poets who resonate down tbe ages. Read On McDuff and find out.This anthology of the most anthologised deserves to be in every library. | | The Top 500 Poems by Columbia University Press Best Poetry Book Ever!! | This is the absolute best poetry book ever compiled! I love this book. I used to own a paperback copy of it many years ago and it was lost during a move. I was so upset about it. At that time I did not know about Amazon. So I went years without it :o( Then, for an anniversary gift, my husband bought this book for me from Amazon!. I was so happy that I could have cried! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!!! IT IS WELL WORTH THE PRICE!
Litha | | The Top 500 Poems by Columbia University Press A Keeper! | | I loved reading this book. It has a very good selection of poems. Highly recommended! | | The Top 500 Poems by Columbia University Press Product Description | Here, for the first time, is our generations' definitive view of the greatest poetry in the English language. This is the story of poetry in English, a collection of the best 500 poems, based not on one critic's choice, not on one poet's choice, but on the collective choice of 550 critics, editors, and poets. Here are the 500 poems that speak to us across the centuries, beginning with Chaucer's words, moving to Shakespeare's masterpieces, through Donne's wonderful witticisms and Pope's elegant satires, through the perennial favorites of Blake, Wordsworth, and Keats, on through Dickinson's jewels of profundity to the ironies of Eliot and to the passion of Plath and Ginsberg in out own time. These are the 500 poems we know or want to know, arranged as an unfolding story of great literature, with comments on each by William Harmon and with a general introduction on the entire collection. |
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