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100 Best-Loved Poems

by Philip Smith

A broad anthology of familiar English-language poetry

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A broad anthology of familiar English-language poetry

Edited by Philip Smith, this anthology brings together poems spanning the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Its selections range from sonnets and devotional verse to lyric, narrative, and reflective poems, with work by Shakespeare, Donne, Wordsworth, Poe, Dickinson, Frost, and many others. The collection pairs widely recognized titles—including “The Raven” and “The Road Not Taken”—with poems by a large roster of poets, offering a compact view of poetry across several centuries.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers seeking a single-volume introduction to well-known English-language poems.
  • Poetry enthusiasts interested in a chronological range from medieval works to 20th-century writing.
  • Readers who want a collection to browse selectively or return to familiar poems.

Themes

English-language poetry across centuriesLove and courtshipNature and reflectionMortality and spiritual questions

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Book overview

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.

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