false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184440744m/1508119.jpg 1508119 1 ONCE UPON A TIME men and women of sense and sensibility knew by heart dozens of poems - Shakespeare's sonnets, stirring patriotic verse, odes to churchyards and elegies for the departed, the music of Swinburne or Poe or Yeats. Poems are meant to be voiced and <i>A Poem a Day</i> includes 366 poems old and new - one for each day of the year - worth learning by heart. Only two criteria were demanded of each poem for inclusion in this collection - it had to be short enough to learn in a day, and good enough to stand among the great poetry of the English language, from Chaucer to Sylvia Plath.<br><br><i>A Poem a Day</i> is a book for the bedside. It contains many of the most familiar poems in the language and others that will come as a surprise. Most are complete and most are short, easily contained in a single page. But a few are substantial works, like Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" and Rudyard Kipling's "Gunga Din." Some have been read by every high school student (Andrew Marvel, "To His Coy Mistress") while others will be new to most readers (Thomas Hardy, "The Voice"). But all share the compression and charged meaning which are the soul of poetry.<br><br>In its British version the book went through seven printings in a year and was a bestseller. Now Karen McCosker has added a new foreword and fifty new poems for an American audience willing to make poetry a part of life. 1499678 1 6 1999 A Poem a Day: 1 (Poem a Day) total:28|5:10|4:8|3:8|2:2| 28 110 42 3 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Aug 15 21:44:51 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 21:45:28 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jan 06 10:39:12 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 10:39:57 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Dec 21 15:20:43 -0800 2008 Sat Jul 18 14:20:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Nov 16 10:52:31 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 10:52:44 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 08 21:06:57 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 21:18:05 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 17:49:26 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 17:49:31 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Aug 09 20:17:11 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 20:17:11 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 15 19:20:06 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 19:20:06 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 08 00:10:01 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 00:10:01 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jun 04 11:00:33 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 11:00:33 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Apr 26 06:19:12 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 06:19:12 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Apr 15 22:34:24 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 22:34:24 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Apr 10 16:01:11 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 16:01:11 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Feb 20 14:58:51 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 14:58:51 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jan 29 06:32:06 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 06:32:06 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Wed Jan 28 13:36:16 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 13:36:16 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jan 26 08:45:33 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 08:45:36 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jan 07 19:48:38 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 19:48:38 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jan 02 10:40:23 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 10:40:27 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu May 15 12:43:23 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 24 16:18:53 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1508119