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Title	:	The Top 500 Poems
Author	:	William Harmon
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1132 pages
Published	:	December 10th 1992 by Columbia University Press (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics. Reference. Anthologies. Fiction

The Top 500 Poems

William Harmon

Hardcover | Pages: 1132 pages

Rating: 4.15 | 462 Users | 54 Reviews

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The Top 500 Poems offers a vivid portrait of poetry in English, assembling a host of popular and enduring poems as chosen by critics, editors, poets, and general readers. These works speak across centuries, beginning with Chaucer's resourceful inventions and moving through Shakespeare's masterpieces, John Donne's complex originality, and Alexander Pope's mordant satires. The anthology also features perennial favorites such as William Blake, William Wordsworth, and John Keats; Emily Dickinson's prisms of profundity; the ironies of Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot; and the passion of Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg. These 500 poems are verses that readers either know already or will want to know, encapsulating the visceral power of truly great literature. William Harmon provides illuminating commentary to each work and a rich introduction that ties the entire collection together.

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Original Title:	The Top 500 Poems
ISBN:	023108028X (ISBN13: 9780231080286)
Edition Language:	English

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the only poem book i own. i admit i am not a poem reader in general. i don't like short stories either. but this is the only poem book i read year after year after year. it uplifts me and digs deep into my emotional psyche.

This is a replacement for a book I owned but lost in Hurricane Katrina. I've been slowly trying to replace ALL of the books that I lost, as money allows, relying on my memory and a handful of digital photographs that include my old bookshelves.While I'm not exactly a poetry kind of guy, there are a handful of poems that I love and consider an important part of my life. Which is why I bought this book - the poems I care about aren't obscure by any means, and so I'm pretty much guaranteed that,

In March, I needed to find a copy of Robert Frosts Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening in order to make sure I was correctly quoting the last verse.There are a number of books I could have turned to, but this particular book was my first choice. I bought this anthology, about 15 years ago, because I was intrigued to know which poems would be included and on what basis. In a delightful editorial note, William Harmon writes that these are the most anthologized poems in English. The time span

An excellent collection! Harmon knows poetry and poets better than many anthologists I've come across. I especially enjoyed the poet biographies and his commentary after each poem. He is a professional, but he is not without his biases! :)

it's a good reference book, but as poetry goes, it's very uneven because 1)it's an anthology and anthologies usually are pretty inconsistent, and 2)it's an anthology of the most-anthologized poems, originally written in english, of all time, so it's more-or-less the book of the all-time favorite in-english poems of the non-poet masses, and that includes mostly a lot of people who don't read a lot of poetry. so, you know, it's the usual suspects. so it's that whole 'when it's good, it's superb,

LONG to read all the way through like I did. A pretty good mix, but still tends to be more "difficult" poems vs easy reads. Most are more serious in tone, many feature older versions of English, lots of references to other literature/mythology/etc as poetry tends to do, etc. But if you love poetry & classics, this is definitely a great collection to have. & possible to read a variety of ways (chronological, by author, by popularity/use, etc).

Really, really good.Unlike some of the poetry anthologies I have, these poems are remarkable for literary excellence rather than mere sentimentality and it shows. These poems are good. They're also ordered by date rather than topic, which I love. And it has a lovely amount of earlier English poems too, not just the nasty romantics. I'm finally reading Donne! I'm even actually enjoying AlexanderPope!If you want a good overview of good English poems from the Middle Ages to today, you want this