The Top 500 Poems

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Call Number: 821.008 To
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	821.008 To	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Includes index.
Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400) -- John Skelton (1460?-1529) -- Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) -- Sir Walter Ralegh (1554?-1618) -- Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599) -- Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) -- George Peele (c.1558-c.1597) -- Robert Southwell (c.1561-1595) -- Samuel Daniel (1562-1619) -- Michael Drayton (1563-1631) -- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -- Thomas Campion (1567-1620) -- Thomas Nashe (1567-1601) -- Chidiock Tichborne (c.1568-1586) -- Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) -- John Donne (1572-1631) -- Ben Jonson (1572-1637) -- John Webster (c.1578-c.1632) -- William Browne (c.1590-1645) -- Robert Herrick (1591-1674) -- Henry King, Bishop of Chichester (1592-1669) -- George Herbert (1593-1633) -- Thomas Carew (1595-1639) -- Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) -- Edmund Waller (1606-1687) -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Sir John Suckling (1609-1642) -- Anne Bradstreet (c.1612-1672) -- Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) -- Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) -- Henry Vaughan (1622-1695) -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Edward Taylor (c.1645-1729) -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) -- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- William Collins (1721-1759) -- Oliver Goldsmith (c.1730-1774) -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Philip Freneau (1752-1832) -- William Blake (1757-1827) -- Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) -- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) -- Robert Southey (1774-1843) -- Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) -- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) -- Leigh Hunt (1874-1859) -- George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824) -- Charles Wolfe (1791-1823) -- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) -- John Clare (1793-1864) -- William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) -- John Keats (1795-1821) -- Thomas Hood (1799-1845) -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) -- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) -- Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Robert Browning (1812-1889) --
Edward Lear (1812-1888) -- Emily Brontë (1818-1848) -- Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) -- Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) -- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) -- William Allingham (1824-1889) -- George Meredith (1828-1909) -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) -- Emily Dickson (1830-1886) -- Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) -- "Lewis Carroll" (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-1898) -- Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) -- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) -- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- Robert Bridges (1844-1930) -- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) -- Eugene Field (1850-1895) -- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) -- Edwin Markham (1852-1940) -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -- Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) -- Francis Tompson (1859-1907) -- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) -- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) -- Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) -- Edwin Arlingtron Robinson (1869-1935) -- William Henry Davies (1871-1940) -- Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) -- Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- John Masefield (1878-1967) -- Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) -- Edward Thomas (1878-1917) -- Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) -- Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) -- Ezra Pound (1885-1972) -- Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) -- Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) -- Marianne Moore (1887-1972) -- Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) -- Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) -- John Crowe Ransom (1884-1974) -- Claude McKay (1890-1948) -- Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) -- Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) -- Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) -- Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962) -- Hart Crane (1899-1932) -- Allen Tate (1899-1979) -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- Stevie Smith (1902-1971) -- Richard Eberhart (b.1904) -- Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) -- Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) -- Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) -- Sir Stephen Spender (b.1909) -- Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- Robert Hayden (1913-1980) -- Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) -- Henry Reed (1914-1986) -- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) -- Gwendolyn Brooks (b.1917) -- Robert Lowell (1917-1977) -- Richard Wilbur (b.1921) -- Philip Larkin (1922-1985) -- Allen Ginsberg (b.1926) -- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963).
The pop title is right out of Billboard (the publisher must think poetry needs all the crossover it can get), but the collection is quite terrific--not necessarily the greatest poems (best to avoid that can of worms), but the 500 English-language poems that have appealed most often to 400 contemporary editors, critics, and poets for inclusion in their own widely disparate anthologies, which were indexed in the Ninth Edition of The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry. From the famous pre-Chaucerian, Anonymous (c.1250-c.1350), author of "Cuckoo Song", to Plath and Ginsberg, the only problem with this anthology will be putting it down.

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