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Title	:	The Top 500 Poems
Author	:	William Harmon
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1132 pages
Published	:	December 10th 1992 by Columbia University Press (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics. Reference. Anthologies. Fiction

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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.

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Original Title:	The Top 500 Poems
ISBN:	023108028X (ISBN13: 9780231080286)
Edition Language:	English

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In March, I needed to find a copy of Robert Frosts 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

This book is based on statistics and thus has both an inherent bias and an inherent flaw. But then I supposed all anthologies have both of those things since all editors have biases and none are perfect. The bias is particularly strong in this chronological anthology. The top 500 is based on the poems most anthologized according to The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry, which was first published in 1904. I have no idea what its sources include but they apparently go back much later than 1904

Poems written in English before the 15th century tend to be very depressing! All about death.And then we get to Shakespeare and that theme becomes far more interesting:Sonnet 73That time of year thou mayst in me beholdWhen yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's

This guy took me three years, trying to do a poem a day. Wonderful selection of over 1000 pages of poetry composed in English. What a language we get to have!

This is a replacement for a book I owned but lost in Hurricane Katrina. I've been slowly trying to replace ALL of the books that I lost, as money allows, relying on my memory and a handful of digital photographs that include my old bookshelves.While I'm not exactly a poetry kind of guy, there are a handful of poems that I love and consider an important part of my life. Which is why I bought this book - the poems I care about aren't obscure by any means, and so I'm pretty much guaranteed that,

Those of you that know me well know that I love poetry. I've enjoyed immersing myself in this collection for the past while. I soaked up each poem and came to a final conclusion about my favorites. You certainly dont have to read this whole list(unless you love poetry or know me well)This book lists the poets chronologically. It only goes to Sylvia Plath and there are more modern poets that I love, but will not list them here. I am placing stars by a poet if I love just about everything he/she

Poems written in English before the 15th century tend to be very depressing! All about death.And then we get to Shakespeare and that theme becomes far more interesting:Sonnet 73That time of year thou mayst in me beholdWhen yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's