The Top 500 poems

Book 1992

The pop title is right out of Billboard (the publisher must think poetry needs all the crossover it can get), but the collection is quite terrific--not necessarily the greatest poems (best to avoid that can of worms), but the 500 English-language poems that have appealed most often to 400 contemporary editors, critics, and poets for inclusion in their own widely disparate anthologies, which were indexed in the Ninth Edition of The Columbia Grange...

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American poetry

English poetry

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ISBN:

9780231080286
023108028X

Description:

xxx, 1132 pages ; 24 cm

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Top five hundred poems
The top five hundred poems
The Top five hundred poems

Notes:

Includes index

Contents:

This Is It!
Anonymous (c.1250-c.1350)
Cuckoo Song
Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400)
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
Anonymous (c.1400-c.1600)
Sir Patrick Spens
Western Wind
Edward, Edward
Thomas the Rhymer
The Wife of Usher's Well
As You Came from the Holy Land of Walsingham
Corpus Christi Carol
The Three Ravens
Tom o' Bedlam's Song
Adam Lay I-bounden
Lord Randal
The Cherry-Tree Carol
The Lord Is My Shepherd
I Sing of a Maiden
A Lyke-Wake Dirge
My Love in Her Attire
The Demon Lover
Weep You No More, Sad Fountains
The Unquiet Grave
Waly, Waly
John Skelton (1460?-1529)
To Mistress Margaret Hussey
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
They Flee from Me That Sometime Did Me Seek
The Lover Complaineth the Unkindness of His Love
Whoso List to Hunt
Walter Ralegh (1554?-1618)
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
The Lie
Even Such Is Time

LCCN:

91042239

Control Number:

45021

Other Authors:

Harmon, William, 1938-

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