100 Best-Loved Poems -- Philip Smith, Paperback
Here are some of the most-loved poems in the English language, chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these splendid poems remain evergreen in their capacity to engage our minds and refresh our spirits.
Among them are Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love; Shakespeare: Sonnet XVIII (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?); Donne: Holy Sonnet X (Death, be not proud); Marvell: To His Coy Mistress; Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; Shelley: Ode to the West Wind; Longfellow: The Children's Hour; Poe: The Raven; Tennyson: The Charge of the Light Brigade; Whitman: O Captain! My Captain!; Dickinson: This Is My Letter to the World; Yeats: When You Are Old; Frost: The Road Not Taken; Millay: First Fig.
Works by many other poets -- Milton, Blake, Burns, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Emerson, the Brownings, Hardy, Housman, Kipling, Pound, and Auden among them -- are included in this treasury, a perfect companion for quiet moments of reflection.
Author: Philip Smith
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 10/04/1995
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780486285535
Age Range: 11-UP