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Tim Green is the editor of Rattle, Poetry for the 21st Century. Here's an entry from his blog listing great poems since 1900 as compiled by Timothy-Green.org Readers, Slightly Edited. Most of them have links so you can read the actual poem.http://timothy-green.org/blog/2009/06/a-...
Some great reading here.
Lots of great reading - lots of great poets. Right away I'm noticing who's missing (lol) The English poets of WW1. Seamus Heaney, some Yeats, the American poets of the 1920's, the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, James Wright, Robert Mezey, Philip Levine and on and on and on....
This is a great start. Eveeeryone needs to read more poetry!!
Well certainly Mr. Green got it right by noting this is a "Partial" list of the greatest poems since 1900; there's no way to make the list "complete". Also, it seems it's a list of the most popular poems among readers of his blog, so it may be a skewed sampling.Having said that, I see many great titles on the list and a good number I don't know...I'll be sure to look them up.
Thanks for the post Ruth.
Oh, thanks for linking to this, Ruth. Yes, it's not a real list. I just had a post about great poems last week, and asked for people to suggest the first few to come to mind. I ended up with a couple dozen, so figured I'd make a list. By no means scientific or exhaustive, but worth recording.
