rhonanc's review against another edition
5.0
I’m so glad my teacher recommended this book to me. The pure emotion every author pours into every line is unbelievable. Even if you are not interested in poetry, I would recommend this book.
bzh's review against another edition
4.0
Never really having read poetry, I picked this book up to acquaint myself a little better. There are some really great poems in here, and this book serves as a good introduction into the art. The following is a list of authors and their poems I liked, in no particular order except the order they occur in the book (which is roughly chronological according to when the authors lived):
William Cullen Bryant
* “Thanatopsis”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
* “Concord Hymn”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
* “The Arrow and The Song”
* “The Children’s Hour”
* “The Day Is Done”
Edgar Allan Poe
* “Annabel Lee”
* “The Conqueror Worm”
* “The Raven”
Herman Melville
* “Misgivings”
Walt Whitman
* “I Sit and Look Out”
* “O Captain! My Captain!”
* “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”
Frances E. W. Harper
* “Bury Me in A Free Land”
* “Songs for the People”
Emily Dickinson
* “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
* “Death Sets a Thing Significant”
* “My Life Closed Twice before It’s Close”
* “Success Is Counted Sweetest”
* “There Is No Frigate like a Book”
Emma Lazarus
* “The New Colossus”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
* “Solitude”
Edwin Arlington Robinson
* “Richard Cory”
Stephen Crane
* “I saw A Man Pursuing The Horizon”
* “War Is Kind”
Paul Laurence Dunbar
* “The Lesson”
Robert Frost
* “Fire and Ice”
* “Mending Wall”
* “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
* “The Road Not Taken”
* “Two Tramps in Mud Time”
Carl Sandburg
* “Fog”
* “I Am The People, The Mob”
Vachel Lindsay
* “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight”
* “Euclid”
* “The Leaden-Eyed”
William Carlos Williams
* “This Is Just to Say”
* “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime”
Robinson Jeffers
* “Shine, Perishing Republic”
* “Shine, Republic”
Marianne Moore
* “Poetry”
Claude McKay
* “The Tropics in New York”
Edna St. Vincent Millay
* “First Fig”
* “Recuerdo”
Langston Hughes
* “I, Too”
* “Mother to Son”
* “Still Here”
Countee Cullen
* “For Paul Laurence Dunbar”
* “Incident”
William Cullen Bryant
* “Thanatopsis”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
* “Concord Hymn”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
* “The Arrow and The Song”
* “The Children’s Hour”
* “The Day Is Done”
Edgar Allan Poe
* “Annabel Lee”
* “The Conqueror Worm”
* “The Raven”
Herman Melville
* “Misgivings”
Walt Whitman
* “I Sit and Look Out”
* “O Captain! My Captain!”
* “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”
Frances E. W. Harper
* “Bury Me in A Free Land”
* “Songs for the People”
Emily Dickinson
* “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
* “Death Sets a Thing Significant”
* “My Life Closed Twice before It’s Close”
* “Success Is Counted Sweetest”
* “There Is No Frigate like a Book”
Emma Lazarus
* “The New Colossus”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
* “Solitude”
Edwin Arlington Robinson
* “Richard Cory”
Stephen Crane
* “I saw A Man Pursuing The Horizon”
* “War Is Kind”
Paul Laurence Dunbar
* “The Lesson”
Robert Frost
* “Fire and Ice”
* “Mending Wall”
* “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
* “The Road Not Taken”
* “Two Tramps in Mud Time”
Carl Sandburg
* “Fog”
* “I Am The People, The Mob”
Vachel Lindsay
* “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight”
* “Euclid”
* “The Leaden-Eyed”
William Carlos Williams
* “This Is Just to Say”
* “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime”
Robinson Jeffers
* “Shine, Perishing Republic”
* “Shine, Republic”
Marianne Moore
* “Poetry”
Claude McKay
* “The Tropics in New York”
Edna St. Vincent Millay
* “First Fig”
* “Recuerdo”
Langston Hughes
* “I, Too”
* “Mother to Son”
* “Still Here”
Countee Cullen
* “For Paul Laurence Dunbar”
* “Incident”
taylormorgantm's review against another edition
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.0
kennedyc's review against another edition
5.0
I’m so glad my teacher recommended this book to me. The pure emotion every author pours into every line is unbelievable. Even if you are not interested in poetry, I would recommend this book.
haleyd24's review against another edition
5.0
I really enjoyed this book. It was the perfect mixture of poems and poets that everyone interested in poetry should by familiar with. There were poems about everything and having so many in one place was very convenient and fun to read. I especially liked the Emerson poems as I was always more familiar with his prose or longer works. I'm not a huge Poe fan so i found his section to be a bit lengthy, the longest in the book, and I would've liked instead to see some more contemporary--maybe some Allen Ginsburg or a little more e.e. cummings, but I still enjoyed reading what this book had to offer. It was compact and easy to take and read anywhere.
iceangel9's review against another edition
5.0
This is a great introduction to poetry in general, and American poetry in particular. Highly recommended read!
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