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Title The Top 500 poems / edited by William Harmon.

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, ©1992.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  821.008 T62 1992    ---  Available
Description xxx, 1132 pages ; 24 cm.
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Series A Columbia Anthology.
Columbia Anthology.
Note Includes index.
Summary 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 Granger's Index to Poetry. From the famous pre-Chaucerian, Anonymous (c.1250-c.1350), author of "Cuckoo Song", to Plath and Ginsberg, the only problem with this anthology will be putting it down.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject English poetry.
American poetry.
English poetry -- Literary collections.
American poetry -- Literary collections.
American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
English poetry. (OCoLC)fst00912278
Genre/Form Literary collections. (OCoLC)fst01423811
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
Poetry.
Added Author Harmon, William, 1938- editor.
Added Title Top five hundred poems
ISBN 023108028X (acid-free paper)
9780231080286 (acid-free paper)
Standard No. 9780231080286

 
    
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