The Top 500 Poems by Harmon, William

The Top 500 Poems (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780231080286)

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Format: Hardcover
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The Top 500 Poems by Harmon, William

The Top 500 Poems

$34.95
The Top 500 Poems by Harmon, William

The Top 500 Poems

$34.95
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: William Harmon
ISBN-10: 023108028X
ISBN-13: 9780231080286
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/10/1992
Pages: 1132
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.60lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 2.40d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/01/1993 pg. 1460
School Library Journal 02/01/1993 pg. 130
By William Harmon
By William Harmon
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William Harmon is the James Gordon Hanes Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the editor of A Handbook to Literature, The Classic Hundred Poems, and The Oxford Book of American Light Verse, and he is the author of several volumes of poetry, including winners of the Lamont Award and the William Carlos Williams Award.

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