Poetry Books


Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry (Perrine's Sound & Sense: An Introduction to Poetry) Best Price: $73.85 This book came to me in a short amount of time. It was also in perfect condition. Thanks.	A Light in the Attic Best Price: $4.75 Your child just might be more capable of appreciating this marvelous book of poetry than you...	World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others (Unabridged) Best Price: $1.00 As the First World War becomes more of an afterthought, its legacy may actually rest in the...	The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry Best Price: $44.41 In the past I've read less expensive anthologies, but the quality of the selections and the...	English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $1.24 I was teaching the "English Romantics" to a small class of students. I needed...



The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $8.50 Recently in this space I reviewed Allen Ginsberg's modern 'beat' classic Howl. I have in the...	Good Poems Best Price: $6.44 America has no equivalent to Japan's Living National Treasures, those artisans and craftspeople...	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation Best Price: $14.95 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' (ca. 1400) is chivalric romance literature of the late Middle...	The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury (Treasured Gifts for the Holidays) Best Price: $11.24 I bought this book for my 9-year old who loves poetry. I'm basing my review merely on the...	Suddenly Sixty And Other Shocks Of Later Life Best Price: $5.80 This slim volume of prosaic poems (they are barely poems, more like very graceful essays) on...



Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse Best Price: $6.37 Hollander's book is a solid little primer on some of the major issues of poetry. Using the...	Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft Best Price: $8.36 "Real Sofistikashun: Essays On Poetry And Craft" by Tony Hogland (who is the author of...	Our World Best Price: $14.97 OUR WORLD BY MARY OLIVER IS A MEMOIR AND A TRIBUTE TO MS. OLIVER'S LONG TIME PARTNER AND FRIEND...	Modern Poems: A Norton Introduction Best Price: $36.66	The Best of Ogden Nash Best Price: $16.72 The writings of Ogden Nash have a unique rhythm and tempo. The humor, and style, coupled with...

J.B.: A Play in Verse Best Price: $3.95 JB is a 20th century version of JOB, the most referred to book in the Bible. This modern...	The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $13.01 Although I've never edited an anthology of poetry, I think they should serve two purposes: to...	English Victorian Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $1.72 This anthology presents over 170 poems by the major poets of the 19th century, including Alfred,...	Selected Poems Best Price: $8.00 W.H. Auden was a twentieth century English poet. He emphasized the individual, past and present,...	The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost Best Price: $6.93 For one reason or another, I have been recently reading (and reviewing) poetry collections--from...

Selected Poems And Four Plays Best Price: $7.33 During a recent fright when we were escaping our apartment down a ladder, I took two books with...	The Classic Hundred Poems Best Price: $13.93 This anthology is surprising in that it's not just a fine selection, but the notes are useful. ...	Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected Best Price: $15.50 I discovered August Kleinzahler when I became intrigued by an article based on an interview with...	Selected Poems Best Price: $5.00 Everyone should read ee cummings, even non-poetry lovers will love cummings whimsy and clever...	The Prophet (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) (Wordsworth Classics) Best Price: $3.77 A very profound, deeply insightful and moving experience! One of my two favorite books of all...

The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. 1: 1909-1939 Best Price: $14.77 I'm not going to attempt to talk about WCW's poetry or I could be writing for hours... rather...	Poetry in English: An Anthology Best Price: $42.95 This excellent collection spans from the Middle English ballads to the mid nineteen-eighties,...	Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology Best Price: $17.00 For some reason, the reviews for the anthology itself are posted here, instead of reviews of...	Undertones of War Best Price: $7.99 "A pleasant summer-evening read"? So says a negative reviewer. Huh? Undertones of...	Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry In Traditional Form Best Price: $97.74 Strong Measures is still by far the best anthology of forms, far surpassing Strand and Boland's...

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems (New Directions Paperback No. 74) Best Price: $4.98 I wish those who praise Ferlinghetti and his work (or even those who disparage them) would LEARN...	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.87 The author of this little masterpiece is unknown. This story - or 'romance' if you like - was...	The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen (New Directions Book) Best Price: $7.54 Here in this book you will find some of the finest poetry that any author from Britain has ever...	Haikus for Jews: For You, a Little Wisdom Best Price: $3.74 Very simply, there are no haiku in this book. A shame that this book like so many others have...	The Caedmon Poetry Collection: A Century of Poets Reading Their Work Best Price: $17.56 Poetry is meant to be listened to! Good collection, even if a bit uneven. The notes are not helpful.

Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry It encompasses a staggering amount of poetry out there, and is the perfect introduction to poetry.	The Oxford Book of English Verse Best Price: $16.00 There is something magisterial about much of pre-20th century english verse, and this book...	The Poets' Corner: The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family Best Price: $12.49 I loved this product. As an English teacher in DCPS I have found my students loved being read...	Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties Best Price: $10.95 This selection from the work of thirty-eight poets was made by Countee Cullen in 1927. His...	American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics (Wesleyan Poetry) Best Price: $19.66 Poets and English professors Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell have meticulously assembled an...

100 Great Poets of the English Language (Penguin Academics Series) (Penguin Academics) Best Price: $22.00 Of course, I am speaking in my title of the pure anthology, a collection without explanatory or...	Elephant Rocks: Poems (Grove Press Poetry Series) Best Price: $10.71 I had to stop reading this book on the bus because it caused me to blubber like a baby! Ms....	Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience Best Price: $12.19 This beautiful, hardcover gift edition allows Blake to communicate with his readers as he...	The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound Best Price: $12.25 'The Waste Land' is widely viewed as the twentieth century's most important English language...	Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $4.99 Teskey believes that the punctuation of the two editions of the poem to appear in Milton's...

The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $10.80	Is Milton Better than Shakespeare? Best Price: $12.99 This reads like a series of high quality lectures. Unfortunately, the reader does not have the...	A Reader's Guide to T.S. Eliot: A Poem-By-Poem Analysis (Reader's Guides) Best Price: $12.22 "No one has examined the poems more sensitively or set down his results more lucidly. His...	W.H. Auden: Selected Poems Best Price: $7.89 W.H. Auden is truly, as noted by editor Edward Mendelson, a twentieth century poet. Auden had a...	Redeeming Time: T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets Best Price: $11.90 The fifth line of the first Quartet states that time is unredeemable. Kramer's book is a very...

Poetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg (Poetry For Young People) Best Price: $3.35 This is another addition to one of the best literary projects to come along in quite some...	Robert Frost: A Life Best Price: $8.99 I have always loved Frost's poetry, but this biography gave me a much greater appreciation for...

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