| The Top 500 Poems Contributor(s): Harmon, William (Editor) |
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ISBN: 023108028X ISBN-13: 9780231080286 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1992 Annotation: For the first time, here is our generation's definitive view of the greatest poetry in the English language. This collection of 500 poems is based on the collective choice of 550 critics, editors, and poets whose anthologies are indexed in The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry. If you've wondered which collection of poetry to buy for yourself or as a special gift--this is it! |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Reference | Bibliographies & Indexes - Reference | Research |
| Dewey: 821.008 |
| LCCN: 91042239 |
| Series: Columbia Anthologies |
| Physical Information: 2.4" H x 6.4" W x 9.1" (3.60 lbs) 1132 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |