The Top 500 Poems
Hardcover 1132 pages English Dec 10, 1992
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The Top 500 Poems offers a vivid portrait of poetry in English, assembling a host of popular and enduring poems as chosen by critics, editors, poets, and general readers. These works speak across centuries, beginning with Chaucer's resourceful inventions and moving through Shakespeare's masterpieces, John Donne's complex originality, and Alexander Pope's mordant satires. The anthology also features perennial favorites such as William Blake, William Wordsworth, and John Keats; Emily Dickinson's prisms of profundity; the ironies of Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot; and the passion of Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg. These 500 poems are verses that readers either know already or will want to know, encapsulating the visceral power of truly great literature. William Harmon provides illuminating commentary to each work and a rich introduction that ties the entire collection together.
- Author:
- William Harmon
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- Publication Date:
- Dec 10, 1992
- Number of pages:
- 1132 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 023108028X
- ISBN-13:
- 9780231080286