300 Favorite Poems

by Thomas Curtis Clark

Many anthologies of poetry are heavy and forbidding. But here is one that is as inviting as a well planned feast. The great poets are here — Shakespeare, Browning, Tennyson, Keats — but the selections made from their work are their most attractive and readable poems. This is the kind of anthology that will appeal to multitudes who are not acquainted with the bulk of great poetry, but who do like brief bits of verse that deal with the things of every day, and in light, winsome manner.

Unlike many anthologies, this book makes a place for humorous and semi-humorous verse. I the final section are included some of the most popular poems that have appeared in the famous "Line-o'-Type" column of the Chicago Tribune, to which Mr. Clark has been a contributor for more than twenty years.

Poetry is a house of many mansions, as someone has said, and in this book poems of many kinds, and of many ages, are included. This anthologist takes special delight in making Shakespeare rub elbows with Carl Sandburg or Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Poetry is poetry, he believes, whether written by an acknowledged classic poet or by a railway clerk in Chicago — today.

125 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1945