The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis (2001)

by Caroline Kennedy (Editor)

Other authors: Aeschylus (Contributor), Mary Austin (Contributor), Bashō (Contributor), Katherine Lee Bates (Contributor), Hilaire Belloc (Contributor) — 60 more, Elizabeth Bishop (Contributor), Sir Harold Boulton (Contributor), Jacqueline Bouvier (Contributor), Rupert Brooke (Contributor), George Gordon Byron, Lord (Contributor), Lewis Carroll (Contributor), Constantine P. Cavafy (Contributor), Chang Wu-chien (Contributor), John Clare (Contributor), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Contributor), Countee Cullen (Contributor), e.e. cummings (Contributor), King David (Contributor), Emily Dickinson (Contributor), John Donne (Contributor), Saint Francis of Assisi (Contributor), Robert Frost (Contributor), Arthur Guiterman (Contributor), Homer (Contributor), Langston Hughes (Contributor), John Keats (Contributor), Daniel Lawrence Kelleher (Contributor), Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Contributor), Jimmy Kennedy (Contributor), Rudyard Kipling (Contributor), Edward Lear (Contributor), Vachel Lindsay (Contributor), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Contributor), Saint Luke (Contributor), Christopher Marlowe (Contributor), John Masefield (Contributor), Saint Matthew (Contributor), Edna St. Vincent Millay (Contributor), John Milton (Contributor), Clement Clarke Moore (Contributor), Alfred Noyes (Contributor), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Contributor), Saint Paul (Contributor), Pindar (Contributor), Edgar Allan Poe (Contributor), Sir Walter Raleigh (Contributor), Theodore Roethke (Contributor), Christina Rossetti (Contributor), Carl Sandburg (Contributor), Siegfried Sassoon (Contributor), William Shakespeare (Contributor), Percy Bysshe Shelley (Contributor), Sir Philip Sidney (Contributor), King Solomon (Contributor), Sophocles (Contributor), Stephen Spender (Contributor), Wallace Stevens (Contributor), Robert Louis Stevenson (Contributor), Alfred Tennyson, Lord (Contributor), Jean Toomer (Contributor), Winifred Welles (Contributor), Walt Whitman (Contributor), William Carlos Williams (Contributor), T.P. Cameron Wilson (Contributor), William Butler Yeats (Contributor)

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I love the poems that were selected. I thought so highly of Jackie Kennedy and her daughter Caroline. (

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bcrowl399 | Dec 19, 2021 |

Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems.

BLTSbraille | Sep 5, 2021 |

Enjoyable and interesting to read a selection of poems that inspired a "public person" whose life was followed by the press, but about whom most people were largely ignorant. I enjoyed reading her daughter Caroline's reminiscences along with poems that I admire. It brings a new perspective on a way of looking at life; even though they are not my favorites. (

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Diane-bpcb | Nov 23, 2015 |

This poetry anthology was disappointing since Ms. Kennedy did not identify any of the authors, provide any biographical information about them or the dates of the poems. Moreover, poems by many poets were included in different sections, and since there is no index, there is no easy way to find all the poems of a particular poet. Ms. Kennedy did write short introductions to each section, including information about her family and the value of poetry to them. Although I enjoyed some of the poems, as a whole I found Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's favorite poems not very inspiring. (

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sallylou61 | Apr 13, 2015 |

Collected and Introduced by Caroline Kennedy, this is a lovely collection of poetry. What makes the collection even more enjoyable to read are the tidbits of insight shared by Caroline about life with her oh so literate mother and father, from memorizing poems for their Daddy to Jacqueline's excitement in organizing an evening of poetry at the White House to the family tradition of writing or selecting a poem for their mother's birthday, Mother's Day, etc. Some classics, some sonnets, some historic moments. Very nice! (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Kennedy, Caroline	Editor	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Aeschylus	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Austin, Mary	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bashō	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bates, Katherine Lee	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Belloc, Hilaire	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bishop, Elizabeth	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Boulton, Sir Harold	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bouvier, Jacqueline	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Brooke, Rupert	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Byron, George Gordon, Lord	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Carroll, Lewis	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Cavafy, Constantine P.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Chang Wu-chien	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Clare, John	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Cullen, Countee	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
cummings, e.e.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
David, King	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Dickinson, Emily	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Donne, John	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Francis of Assisi, Saint	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Frost, Robert	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Guiterman, Arthur	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Homer	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Hughes, Langston	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Keats, John	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Kelleher, Daniel Lawrence	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Kennedy, Jimmy	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Kipling, Rudyard	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Lear, Edward	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Lindsay, Vachel	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Luke, Saint	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Marlowe, Christopher	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Masefield, John	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Matthew, Saint	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Millay, Edna St. Vincent	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Milton, John	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Moore, Clement Clarke	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Noyes, Alfred	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Paul, Saint	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Pindar	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Poe, Edgar Allan	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Raleigh, Sir Walter	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Roethke, Theodore	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Rossetti, Christina	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Sandburg, Carl	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Sassoon, Siegfried	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Shakespeare, William	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Shelley, Percy Bysshe	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Sidney, Sir Philip	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Solomon, King	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Sophocles	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Spender, Stephen	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Stevens, Wallace	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Stevenson, Robert Louis	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Toomer, Jean	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Welles, Winifred	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Whitman, Walt	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Williams, William Carlos	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Wilson, T.P. Cameron	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Yeats, William Butler	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bloom, Claire	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Davis, Viola	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Jennings, Byron	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Kennedy, Edward M.	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Audie Award (Finalist – Poetry – 2002)

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New York Times bestseller (Fiction – 2001)

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2001

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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Inauguration of John F. Kennedy (1961)

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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

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One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language.

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