2024 the best loved poems of the american people review

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Popular, well-known poetry: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer''s day?" "Death, be not proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Emerson, Browning, Keats, Kipling, Sandburg, Pound, Auden, Thomas, and many others.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dover Publications Inc.; Dover Thrift Edition (February 1, 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0486285537
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0486285535
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 11 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 0.28 x 8.27 inches
Reviewer: Robert A
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great poems
Review: Great price for great selection of poetry. Prompt delivery

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Poems
Review: Thin books, lots of authors, beautiful poems and just the right size for my elderly mother. She looked and saw so many of her favorite poems. Worth my money to see my mom smile, her Dementia is getting worse, this helps

Reviewer: The Rebecca Review
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Poetic Journey through Time
Review: "The fog comeson little cat feet.It sits lookingover the harbor and cityon silent haunchesand then move on."~Fog, Carl Sandburg100 Best-Loved Poems presents poems from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century. The poets are all familiar, but the poems are more varied and quite a few are poems I'd never read before. In a compilation like this, you'd imagine to find quite a few familiar favorites from high school or college and those did appear throughout.There is comfort in reading poems we tried to understand in school, but didn't have the emotional maturity to fully digest. Now upon reflection, how could we have truly understood "To His Coy Mistress" at 16, a poem born of mature desire. Now nearing forty, I feel I can linger in these poems enjoying every nuance.This classic collection includes brief introductions to each poet and includes some information on poetic forms. In the section of Ballads, you can hear the singsong rhymes as you read so the first poem was a good choice.The poets include: Lord Randal, Sir Patrick Spens, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Thomas Nashe, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Edmund Waller, John Milton, Richard Lovelace, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Gray, William Blake, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Cullen Bryant, John Keats Ralph Waldo Emerson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Matthew Arnold, George Meredith, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Louis Stevenson, A.E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, William Butler Yeats, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Wilfred Owen, E.E. Cummings, W.H. Auden and Dylan Thomas.While the poems are not overly culturally diverse and seem to focus on English and American poets, there is a wonderful early translation for "The River-Merchant's Wife: A letter." It was fun to find "The Tyger" by William Blake and Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" makes a little more sense to me now. "Ode on a Grecian Urn" makes more sense when you can see a picture. Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" is a reminder of time's destructive powers and William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" speaks of the human condition and the way we connect with nature. William Butler Yeats has a different take on age in "When You Are Old." He speaks more of appreciation than destruction."For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils."~I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, William WordsworthThe selections by Emily Dickinson are playful and they made me want to read more of her poems. There are quite a few life lesson poems that are profound in content, like "If-" by Rudyard Kipling, where he speaks of what it takes to me a man. Robert Frost also presents intriguing notions and life choices in his "The Road Not Taken."This collection offers recollections of poetry you may remember and introduces quite a few poems that are less familiar. John Donne's Holy Sonnet XIV was new to me, although I had read Holy Sonnet X..."Death be not proud..."As far as romance goes, Ben Johnson's "To Celia" stands out as does Robert Burns' "A Red, Red Rose."100 Best-Loved Poems is a lovely classic collection and it is nice to have all these poems in one book for future contemplation. I will have to agree with everyone else who made comment as to the lack of cultural variety. For this, you may want to seek out poetry collections by Sam Hamill. For me, this was an inexpensive way to expand my poetry knowledge and to remember some of the poems I learned in high school and college."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."~Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost~The Rebecca Review

Reviewer: Jefffsr
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A good place to start
Review: I must admit I'm not that fluent in poetic verse. I bought this on a whim long ago and I'm glad I did. Its got a lot of famous poems that everyone has heard at some point. Its kind of like learning to speak a different dialect. You have to read it and immerse yourself in it to get the hang of it. This is a good primer.

Reviewer: Himmeldonnerwetter
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great product!
Review: Great product!

Reviewer: HEATHER KONIECZNY
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Reviewer: Joseph J. Truncale
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A fantastic collection of poems that every poetry lover will welcome.
Review: This is a volume that all poetry lovers will welcome. Dover Thrift Edition has put out some of the best classics in literature, and at a very modest price. This small but mighty book includes selections from some of the most well-known and best poets. The editor has chosen these poems from the middle ages to the 20th century.Some of the talented poets in this volume include Frost, Milton, Blake, Shakespeare, Longfellow, Houseman, Keats, Sandburg, Poe, Emerson, Yeats, Dickinson, Whitman, Kipling and many, many others. One of the things I personally love about this volume is the brief introduction on each of the poets. This gives the reader information that makes the poet come alive.In conclusion, if you love poetry, you will want this small volume in your library. If you are new to poetry, this book can serve as an excellent introduction to some of the greatest poets and their most loved poems.Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Haiku Moments: How to read, write and enjoy Haiku)

Reviewer: Don Gregorio
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A fine collection of poems
Review: The poems were, unsurprisingly, wonderful. My only complaint with the book is that the text is too small for older eyes.

Reviewer: RyanL
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I keep on finding my wife reading from this book that I bought over 6 years ago. She enjoys poems and it makes me happy that this is something she returns to.

Reviewer: Raphael
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: O material do livro é bem simples, mas os poemas são ótimos.O que dificuldade um pouco é o inglês antigo, mas nada que seja impossível de resolver.

Reviewer: Bainesy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: A must for poetry readers. A great selection of poems from different eras. Every poet had their own style. Enjoyable.

Reviewer: JP
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I love that this book is inexpensive. It has a good selection of poems I remember from my school days. It also reminds me of my school books from those times - inexpensive paper but well put together. A worthwhile purchase!

Reviewer: Judith Bell
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I like poetry