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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.008
EAN: 9780486401584
ISBN: 0486401588
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: January 21, 1998
Publisher: Dover Publications
Sales Rank: 9490
Studio: Dover Publications
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Rich treasury of verse from 19th and 20th centuries, selected for popularity and literary quality, includes Poe’s 'The Raven,' Whitman’s 'I Hear America Singing,' as well as poems by Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, many other notables.
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Rating:  - The American school anthology
This is a wonderful collection of American poetry classics. It contains most of the poems that have been taught through the years in American schools as the ' classics ' of American Literature. It does not really touch the American poetry of the past fifty years.
Most of its poems are the shorter poems of great poetic masters , for instance for Wallace Stevens, " Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird' and the 'Emperor of Ice- Cream' but not the 'Idea of Order at Key West' for Eliot, " Prufrock" ... Read More
Rating: - A Manifested Dream
This book is the manifestation of the dream of former U.S. Poet Laureate Joseph Brodsky when he said, "Poetry must be available to the public in far greater volume than it is." Brodsky believed that poetry books should be distributed free of charge in many places, such as supermarkets and factories. He also had the idea that an anthology of poetry should be, "found in every hotel room in the land." Brodsky went on to create the American Poetry & Literacy Project in 1993, and is the compiler of this ... Read More
Rating:  - Inspiring
I really enjoyed this alot. I felt I was transported into a world of great poems. There really wasn't a bad piece here. Indulge and buy this book.
Rating: - Excllent Read
This book is quite wonderful. It includes some of my all time favorite American Poets. I recommend it to anyone who likes poetry.
Also Recommended: Quotes, Poems, and Words That Flow by Kevin Grommersch
Rating: - Quite a Bang for Your Buck!..........
............this small book of poetry contains the work of nearly forty of the best known American poets. From Emily Dickinson to Walt Whitman to Edgar Allan Poe to Robert Frost, there are poems in this collection that are sure to appeal to everyone! Also represented in this collection are ten women poets and eight African Americans including Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes and Phyllis Wheatley. There's even a poem by Abraham Lincoln that reveals his thoughts about his childhood experiences.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.008
EAN: 9780486401584
ISBN: 0486401588
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: January 21, 1998
Publisher: Dover Publications
Sales Rank: 9490
Studio: Dover Publications