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The Top 500 Poems
Harmon
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Description for The Top 500 Poems
Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Harmon, William. Series: Columbia Anthologies. Num Pages: 1132 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1664.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
1132
Condition
New
Series
Columbia Anthologies
Number of Pages
1132
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231080286
SKU
V9780231080286
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About Harmon
William Harmon is the James Gordon Hanes Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the editor of A Handbook to Literature, The Classic Hundred Poems, and The Oxford Book of American Light Verse, and he is the author of several volumes of poetry, including winners of the Lamont Award and the William ... Read more
Reviews for The Top 500 Poems
If your library can buy only one volume of poetry, let this be it. Booklist 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.
Gwendolyn Brooks, poet A revealing snapshot of one aspect of Western civilization, even including a list of the poems ... Read more
Gwendolyn Brooks, poet A revealing snapshot of one aspect of Western civilization, even including a list of the poems ... Read more