The 100 best poems of all time / edited by Leslie Pockell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pockell, Leslie.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Collections.

Poetry.

Poetry--Translations into English.

Genre:

Collections.

Translations.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xii, 189 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

One hundred best poems of all time

Place of Publication:

New York : Warner Books, [2001]

Summary:

Here, in this compact volume, is a greatest hits collection of the 100 best poems ever written, by the world's greatest poets. This essential collection is perfect for the poetry lover who wants to carry around his/her favorite poems, & ideal for the reader seeking an introduction to the greatest poems world literature has to offer. The authors included are each represented by one of his or her best-known&best-loved works, from the Classics (Homer, Sappho, Virgil, Ovid, etc.) to the Renaissance (Dante, Petrarch, Villon, Shakespeare, etc.) to the Romantics (Schiller, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, etc.) to the 20th Century giants (Pound, Eliot, Frost, Stevens, etc.) down to the present day (Ginsberg, Plath, Angelou, etc.). Each poem is introduced by a brief head note which details the poet's life history as well as the poem's.

Contents:

From The Iliad / Homer

He Is More Than a Hero / Sappho

Psalm 23

From The Song of Songs [Chapter One]

Song 5 to Lesbia / Catullus

From The Aeneid / Virgil

From Metamorphoses / Ovid

Drinking Alone in the Moonlight / Li Po

Moonlit Night / Tu Fu

Madly Singing in the Mountains / Po Chu-i

Rubaiyat 51 / Omar Khayyam

From Inferno / Dante Alighieri

Remembrance / Petrarch [Francesco Petrarca]

From The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales / Geoffrey Chaucer

The Ballad of Ladies of the Past / Francois Villon

Sonnet 18 / William Shakespeare

Go and Catch a Falling Star / John Donne

Song to Celia II / Ben Jonson

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time / Robert Herrick

Jordan / George Herbert

When I Consider How My Light Is Spent / John Milton

From The Prologue / Anne Bradstreet

To Althea, from Prison / Richard Lovelace

To His Coy Mistress / Andrew Marvell

An Old Pond / Matsuo Basho

Epigram: Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness / Alexander Pope

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard / Thomas Gray

To Jeoffry His Cat / Christopher Smart

Amazing Grace / John Newton

Tyger! Tyger! / William Blake

To a Mouse / Robert Burns

Ode to Joy / Friedrich von Schiller

Don't Kill That Fly! / Kobayashi Issa

The World Is Too Much with Us / William Wordsworth

From The Lay of the Last Minstrel / Walter Scott

Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A Visit from St. Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

ISBN:

0446676810

9780446676816

OCLC:

44634383

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