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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gtin13: 9780231080286 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. LC Classification Number: PR1175.C6417 1992 Language: English ISBN-10: 023108028X Genre: Poetry, Référence Topic: General, American / General, Research, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Intended Audience: Scholarly & Professional Number of Pages: 1132 Pages Illustrator: Yes Dewey Edition: 21 Format: Hardcover Book Title: Top 500 Poems TitleLeading: The Publisher: Columbia University Press Author: William Harmon Grade From: College Graduate Student Item Width: 6.5 in 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. Dewey Decimal: 821.008 Item Length: 9.3 in Publication Year: 1992 Item Height: 2.3 in LCCN: 91-042239 Item Weight: 59.6 Oz brand: Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 9780231080286

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