
Great Short Poems
Selections by Shakespeare, Burns, Wordsworth, Shelley, Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Dunbar and many more
- 64 pages
- English
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Great Short Poems
Selections by Shakespeare, Burns, Wordsworth, Shelley, Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Dunbar and many more
About this book
This outstanding anthology of short verse offers poetry lovers an impressive sampling of more than 150 masterpieces spanning over 400 years of English and American literary history. Although short in length (the longest are 24 lines, most 16 lines or less), these poems are long on beauty, power, imagination, and originality.
Included are such memorable compositions as John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud," Shakespeare's "When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes," "On His Blindness" by John Milton, William Blake's "The Tyger," Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," Byron's "She Walks in Beauty," Shelley's "Ozymandias," as well as works by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manly Hopkins, Amy Lowell, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Dylan Thomas, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and many others.
Attractive and inexpensive, this compilation of carefully chosen verse contains many of the most loved, most anthologized poems in the English language. Students, teachers, and any lover of great poetry will treasure this splendid collection.
Includes "The Road Not Taken," "Loveliest of Trees," and "Ozymandias."
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Note
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- Sir Walter Ralegh (1554β1618)
- William Shakespeare (1564β1616)
- John Donne (1572-1631)
- Ben Jonson (1572β1637)
- John Webster (1580?β1634)
- Robert Herrick (1591β1674)
- Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
- Thomas Carew (1595β1639)
- John Milton (1608β1674)
- Sir John Suckling (1609β1642)
- Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
- Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)
- Sir George Etherege (1635β1691)
- Matthew Prior (1664β1721)
- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
- John Gay (1688β1732)
- Oliver Goldsmith (c. 1730-1774)
- George Crabbe (1754-1832)
- William Blake (1757-1827)
- Robert Burns (1759-1796)
- William Wordsworth (1770β1850)
- Walter Savage Landor (1775β1864)
- Thomas Moore (1779β1852)
- Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
- Thomas Love Peacock (1785β1866)
- George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788β1824)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792β1822)
- John Keats (1795β1821)
- Hartley Coleridge (1796β1849)
- Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803β1882)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806β1861)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807β1882)
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809β1849)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809β1892)
- Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883)
- Robert Browning (1812β1889)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817β1862)
- Emily BrontΓ« (1818-1848)
- Arthur Hugh Clough (1819β1861)
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
- Coventry Patmore (1823-1896)
- George Meredith (1818β1909)
- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- Christina Rossetti (1830β1894)
- Lewis Carroll (1832β1898)
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1906)
- Thomas Hardy (1840β1928)
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844β1889)
- John Banister Tabb (1845β1909)
- Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
- William Ernest Henley (1849β1903)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850β1894)
- Francis William Bourdillon (1852β1921)
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
- Oscar Wilde (1854β1900)
- John Davidson (1857β1909)
- A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
- Gelett Burgess (1866β1951)
- Ernest Dowson (1867β1900)
- E. A. Robinson (1869-1935)
- Stephen Crane (1871β1900)
- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872β1906)
- Amy Lowell (1874β1925)
- Robert Frost (1874β1963)
- Hughes Mearns (1875-1965)
- Adelaide Crapsey (1878β1914)
- John Masefield (1878β1967)
- Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
- Wallace Stevens (1879β1955)
- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
- Sara Teasdale (1884β1933)
- Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
- Joyce Kilmer (1886β1918)
- Rupert Brooke (1887β1915)
- Claude McKay (1890β1948)
- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
- Archibald MacLeish (1892β1982)
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892β1950)
- Wilfred Owen (1893β1982)
- Langston Hughes (1902β1967)
- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)