Discover the Top 500 Poems by William Harmon in a 1992 Hardcover Edition-image

Discover the Top 500 Poems by William Harmon in a 1992 Hardcover Edition

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Reviews: ""All types of librairies will be interested in this volume as a basic anthology of poetry in English. It will be welcome in elementary and secondary school library media centers, public library poetry and reference collections, home libraries, and as a gift. If your library can buy only one volume of poetry, let this be it."", It is rare indeed to come across a book in which wisdom and love come together as powerfully as they do for William Harmon., The Top 500 Poems is intriguing in concept and management, and most of us will want to own it. And for this we are grateful., The merriest poetry anthology of the past decade.... It's everything from 'Sumer is icumen in' to Sylvia Plath's 'Daddy' with terse, plain, and rather wonderful commentary by Harmon., A revealing snapshot of one aspect of Western civilization, even including a list of the poems in order of popularity. Intended Audience: Scholarly & Professional Format: Hardcover gtin13: 9780231080286 Publisher: Columbia University Press Number of Pages: 1132 Pages Dewey Decimal: 821.008 TitleLeading: The Item Length: 9.3 in Item Width: 6.5 in Topic: General, American / General, Research, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh LC Classification Number: PR1175.C6417 1992 Item Weight: 59.6 Oz ISBN-13: 9780231080286 Illustrator: Yes Dewey Edition: 21 LCCN: 91-042239 Synopsis: 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., This is the story of poetry in English, a collection of the best 500 poems, based not on one critic's choice, not on one poet's choice, but on the collective choice of 550 critics, editors, and poets. Item Height: 2.3 in Book Title: Top 500 Poems Language: English Author: William Harmon Publication Year: 1992 Genre: Poetry, Référence Grade From: College Graduate Student ISBN-10: 023108028X brand: Columbia University Press

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