4.28 avg rating — 106,592 ratings

"Competitive with Shakespeare in memorizability, and of course, more compact. Readers should spend a year, 3 poems a day, just as they would spend to read all of Sh."

4.48 avg rating — 57,641 ratings

"A lifetime of reading and teaching, and now editing Shakespeare works for Peter Lang Press."

3.53 avg rating — 237,501 ratings

"Arguably, the most realistic portraits in English lit, whereas Shakepsare's characters seem to be grander than life, on stage."

4.27 avg rating — 88 ratings

"Witty, and Shakespeare's favorite Latin."

4.10 avg rating — 70,611 ratings

"Derives from Byron, but maybe surpasses, by reading like a combination of Byron and Wordsworth. Also, the model for my latest, Parodies Lost."

3.86 avg rating — 181,941 ratings

"Aloud this while walking, about 20 min a day, 25 days. It's shorter than I ever thought while teaching it!
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4.08 avg rating — 171,685 ratings

"Mainly the Purgatorio, of which I have the first 27 lines in memory."

3.78 avg rating — 8,928 ratings

"The greatest Romantic work, as the Romantic period readers thought--and I too."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,115 ratings

"Vides ut alta stet nive candidum Soracte--You see how high piled the white mountain stand, snowed-in and love odes, political odes, a grand panoply of human live summed in memorable meters."

4.23 avg rating — 40,028 ratings

"Beside E.D. and Will the Shake, the most memorable lines ever written, especially his Under Ben Bulben, in tetrameters. "A line may take us hours, maybe/ But if it doesn't seem a moment's thought,/All our stitching and unstiching has been nought."
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4.31 avg rating — 137 ratings

"Vivamus mea Lesbea atque amemus..Memorable hendecasyllables, great account of love and rejection.
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3.76 avg rating — 37 ratings

"Amusing, colloquial, Shakepseare's major Latin source."

4.25 avg rating — 112,252 ratings

"Some easily memorizable, like "Why is my verse so barren of new pride?" Some difficult, like # 91."

4.24 avg rating — 49,228 ratings

"After Dickinson, our best. He used to visit my teacher T Baird, whose mother was dying, saying to her, "YOU say a poem, then I'll say one."
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,742 ratings

"Spent ten years writing my Ph.D. thesis on this, now in two German libraries, This Critical Age: Deliberate Departures.... "

4.22 avg rating — 73,615 ratings

"My Ph.D. Advisor's first book, on Eliot--Leonard Unger; strong influence on my early poems like "Joseph Kennedy Watches Eisenhower's Funeral.."
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4.15 avg rating — 9,919 ratings

3.83 avg rating — 66 ratings

"Best of Latin translators, and witty renewer.
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4.19 avg rating — 18,322 ratings

"Heavy influence on my young poems, parody in my Parodies Lost.
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4.19 avg rating — 80,151 ratings

"A terrible life squeezed into memorable verse.
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4.20 avg rating — 13,022 ratings

"REad at my community college several years after she got back from Brazil. My colleague, her Vassar classmate, rented her Hurricane Cottage to her, where B fihished "One Art"--and incidentally, spoke with me--who later cleaned a bluefish for the author of The Fish.
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3.87 avg rating — 143,000 ratings

"Prefer my teacher Rolfe Humphries' translation. I recall his gloss on "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes," the translator has not taken liberties here, as he has elsewhere."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings

" Ariosto was the military governor of Garfagnana, which he calle "questa fossa," this ditch. It's beautiful, but it was the home of dozens of brigands, outlaws. Ariosto as military commander for the Duke of Ferrara had maybe forty troops, mounted on horse--which he points out in a satire (maybe #2, to his brother)--are useless in the mountain rocks. He was also plagued by desertions from his troops, and by the geo-political fact of three contiguous rulers,I seem to recall."

4.45 avg rating — 316,761 ratings

"Psalms only, in verse."

4.20 avg rating — 2,861 ratings

""We real cool. We/Skip school.." Brilliant capture of pause by the line end, the rhythm of street speech. She should have been Clinton's Inaugural poet."

4.20 avg rating — 6,828 ratings

"I rode the bus to the U of Minnesota and home--more often home--with this author, whose house was a third of a mile from our rental in Prospect Park, St Paul. He writes here a long poem, not as good as Paterson, perhaps, but better than enything of Lowell's. My Parodies Lost has been compareed to this work, by a major American critic.
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4.27 avg rating — 11,575 ratings

4.13 avg rating — 3,235 ratings

"Maybe this shoudl be above Berryman, but I personal relation with Berryman (just busriders!) made me..."

4.33 avg rating — 36,245 ratings

4.35 avg rating — 1,504,843 ratings