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Great Short Poems
by
Paul Negri
This outstanding 150-poem anthology spans over 400 years of English and American literary history. Memorable compositions include Donne's "Death Be Not Proud," Blake's "The Tyger," Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," Byron's "She Walks in Beauty," Shelley's "Ozymandias," as well as works by Tennyson, Whitman, Dicki...more
Paperback, 64 pages
Published
February 18th 2000
by Dover Publications
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I enjoyed this collection of poems. Many were familiar already, but this was a nice, quick review of some classics. Favorite poems in this book included ones by Walt Whitman, Lewis Carroll, and Robert Frost.
the books is exactly what it promised a fine short collection of fine short poems, it spans many different poets and many different subjects. it is a great book for the price and just the sheer idea of a compendium of short but powerful poems so in a sense its a way to always bring one of your favorite poets with you (its a small volume and one of your favorites is bound to be in it) and also if you are not very familiar it also can serve as a great preview for many poets although many just have...more
Convenient brevity, with lots of opportunity for further discovery, and I'm sure there's plenty of other uses for such a condensed collection.
64/64
It has so many great writers and it was ordered base on time, so it isn't difficult to see how the authors' voices change through the poems. At the beginning, it didn't have a lot of African American writers, but after that, it has more and more African American writers and they showed their background at the same time and that why i gave this book 4 over 5 in rating
It has so many great writers and it was ordered base on time, so it isn't difficult to see how the authors' voices change through the poems. At the beginning, it didn't have a lot of African American writers, but after that, it has more and more African American writers and they showed their background at the same time and that why i gave this book 4 over 5 in rating
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