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Oct 16, 2009
Robyn
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This sucker helped me breeze through the modernist stuff on the lit test. It's got enough biographical info and info about how critics classify the poets to help you remember the difference between similar dudes (and dudettes), and most of the poems are exemplary of their styles. A great primer, and a great book to have if you don't plan on buying volumes and volumes of modernist poems!
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Jan 10, 2012
Jed
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Can we all just agree that anthologies are helpful things to have on one's shelf, but ultimately unsatisfying? They never go in-depth enough on the authors one likes, and seem to stretch out forever on authors one wants nothing to do with. Oh well: they're also great introducers of authors one didn't know (or know well enough) before. The guys on this list that I met in this book include Brother Antoninus, Sigfreid Sassoon, Marianne Moore, Denise Levertov, WH Auden, and Delmore Schwartz. Also, e
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Oct 06, 2010
carl
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Had to purchase for, what else? Modern poetry class, and glad I did, kept
after college. Have read through this and that passage many times, a great
book to keep at the bedside, pick a poet fer an eve, after dark and before
the dawn surprises you.
Jan 07, 2009
Shel
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Bought it in college, still the best one anthology I've got -- and written all over!
Apr 18, 2010
Lynda
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Okay, truth be told I do not like much modern poetry. A few years ago after on of my long recoveries from surgery, I went through this anthology to see if any poets appealed to me that I might want to read further. There were a few, also a few I liked a lot, but I still like the older poets better.
Oct 17, 2008
Nice
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This is a book for your library that you constantly refer back to, that helps introduce you to some of the greatest poet living and dead. I am so thankful my Poetry Writing Prof made us buy this. Shoutout to John Matthias at the University of Notre Dame. I will always be currently reading this book.
Dec 17, 2009
Gary
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Right now (9/11/07), it's Whitman, Dickinson, and the intro. Soon it'll be Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Williams, etc.
Now (9/13/07) it's time for 55 pages of micro-sized print William Butler Yeats. Oh boy.
Now (9/13/07) it's time for 55 pages of micro-sized print William Butler Yeats. Oh boy.
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Sep 27, 2007
Erin
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Oh, Norton, how I love thee. These anthologies are awesome--both for the great works they include and for the interesting information about authors.
Sep 20, 2008
Foxygiraffe
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Ok, obviously I haven't read the WHOLE thing, but it's on my shelf.
Feb 26, 2011
Phil
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I may never actually finish this book as it's an anthology, I pick it up every once in a while to re-read favorite poems that are included and new ones I haven't encountered yet. This is an outstanding collection.
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