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Best Remembered Poems (1992)

by Martin Gardner (Editor)

Other authors: Elizabeth Akers Allen (Contributor), Matthew Arnold (Contributor), William Blake (Contributor), Francis William Bourdillon (Contributor), Robert Browning (Contributor)60 more, William Cullen Bryant (Contributor), Gelett Burgess (Contributor), Robert Burns (Contributor), George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron (Contributor), Bliss Carman (Contributor), Lewis Carroll (Contributor), Arthur Chapman (Contributor), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Contributor), Stephen Crane (Contributor), Emily Dickinson (Contributor), Joseph Rodman Drake (Contributor), Ralph Waldo Emerson (Contributor), Eugene Field (Contributor), Sam Walter Foss (Contributor), Robert Frost (Contributor), Thomas Gray (Contributor), Edgar Guest (Contributor), Sarah Josepha Hale (Contributor), Felicia Dorothea Hemans (Contributor), William Ernest Henley (Contributor), Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (Contributor), Thomas Hood (Contributor), Richard Hovey (Contributor), Julia Ward Howe (Contributor), Leigh Hunt (Contributor), John Keats (Contributor), Joyce Kilmer (Contributor), Rudyard Kipling (Contributor), Edward Lear (Contributor), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Contributor), Edwin Markham (Contributor), John Masefield (Contributor), John McCrae (Contributor), Hughes Mearns (Contributor), Edna St. Vincent Millay (Contributor), Joaquin Miller (Contributor), Clement Clarke Moore (Contributor), George Pope Morris (Contributor), Alfred Noyes (Contributor), John Howard Payne (Contributor), Edgar Allan Poe (Contributor), Adelaide Anne Procter (Contributor), James Whitcomb Riley (Contributor), Carl Sandburg (Contributor), John Godfrey Saxe (Contributor), Alan Seeger (Contributor), Robert W. Service (Contributor), Percy Bysshe Shelley (Contributor), Langdon Smith (Contributor), Robert Southey (Contributor), Robert Louis Stevenson (Contributor), Jane Taylor (Contributor), Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron (Contributor), Ernest Lawrence Thayer (Contributor), Rose Hartwick Thorpe (Contributor), Walt Whitman (Contributor), John Greenleaf Whittier (Contributor), Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Contributor), Samuel Woodworth (Contributor), William Wordsworth (Contributor)

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The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th- and 20th-century British and American verse range from the impassioned "Renascence" of Edna St. Vincent Millay to Edward Lear's whimsical "The Owl and the Pussycat." Famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman, and Frost are well-represented, as are less well-known poets.… (more)
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I'm on the fence about keeping this on my bookshelves in an internet age where almost all of these are in the public domain and easily searched for, so I don't need it on hand to say, be able to reread Masefield's Sea Fever. This is one of four poetry anthologies I own. This contains 123 British and American poems of the 19th and 20th Century. It lacks the international and historical focus of my Book of Woman Poets--it opens with Enheduanna, a Sumerian Priestess who may be the earliest known name in written literature. The Immortal Poems of the English Language offers 447 poems embracing a wide range of the best poets in the language from Chaucer to Dylan Thomas, so is a better survey of poetry in the English language. Premier Book of Major Poets offers a thematic grouping: Nature, Love, Humor, Death, etc. All the above also offer more than the usual suspects--the whole reason for this collection is to gather the best known poems--one reviewer who calls this a museum is right. On the other hand, I do appreciate the annotations by Martin Gardner--something two of the previously mentioned anthologies don't offer. It's nice to have the context. ( )
  LisaMaria_C | Aug 17, 2013 |
It contains many famous and several infamous poems, and it features many of the poems that my generation's parents and grandparents knew and, i some cases, memorized. Our generation may be the last to have any strong connection to any of these poems, so the book is a bit of a museum. ( )
  ostrom | Nov 25, 2007 |
It's an ugly little book, but it's got all the best poems and it's highly portable. Mixed in with all the familiar ones are some really excellent poems that I'd never read before, and each poet gets a short intro and biography. For the man who penned "The Purple Cow," it includes his own parody:

Yes, I wrote the Purple Cow/I'm sorry now I wrote it
But I can tell you anyhow/I'll kill you if you quote it ( )
  tenthrune | May 7, 2007 |
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Seeger, AlanContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Service, Robert W.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Smith, LangdonContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th- and 20th-century British and American verse range from the impassioned "Renascence" of Edna St. Vincent Millay to Edward Lear's whimsical "The Owl and the Pussycat." Famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman, and Frost are well-represented, as are less well-known poets.

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