Good Poems

America's beloved author, humorist, and storyteller offers a selection of meaningful and enjoyable poems Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." Good Poems includes verse about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds. It's a book of poems for anybody who loves poetry whether they know it or not.

"The book is full of strong, memorable poems that stick with readers like a friend during a long, hard night. " - The Christian Science Monitor Here, readers will find solace in works that are bracing and courageous, organized into such resonant headings as "Such As It Is More or Less" and "Let It Spill." From William Shakespeare and Walt Whitman to R. S. Gwynn and Mary Oliver, the voices gathered in this collection will be more than welcome to those who've been struck by bad news, who are burdened by stress, or who simply appreciate the power of good poetry.

The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th and 20th century British and American verse range from famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman, and Frost to less well-known poets. Includes 10 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. The book features a large introductory essay by Harold Bloom called "The Art of Reading Poetry," which presents his critical reflections of more than half a century devoted to the reading, teaching, and writing about the literary achievement he loves most. In the case of all major poets in the language, this volume offers either the entire range of what is most valuable in their work, or vital selections that illuminate each figure's contribution. There are also headnotes by Harold Bloom to every poet in the volume as well as to the most important individual poems. Much more than any other anthology ever gathered, this book provides readers who desire the pleasures of a sublime art with very nearly everything they need in a single volume. It also is regarded as his final meditation upon all those who have formed his mind.

Outstanding anthology features more than 150 English and American masterpieces spanning over 400 years. "Death Be Not Proud," "The Tyger," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," plus works by Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, others.

Lee Bennet Hopkins, noted anthologist and educator, has collected a group of witty and whimsical poems that celebrate the joy of reading. Karla Kuskin, Jack Prelutsky, and Arnold Lobel are just a few of the acclaimed children's book authors whose poems are joined into this delightful ode to the world of words. Wonderfully wacky illustrations by Harvey Stevenson help make this a rollicking good book--and a rollicking good time.

This great English Poetry Anthology contains 150 of the Most Famous Poems of the last centuries. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these famous poems remain Masterpieces of English Literature and continue to inspire and influence people all over the world. This poetry compilation comes in the size of 8x10 inches (20.32 x 25.4 cm) and is perfect as a gift for poetry lovers, literature students and teachers or to complete your own book collection. The following famous Poets are represented in this book: Matthew Arnold - William Blake - Anne Bradstreet - Rupert Brooke - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Robert Browning -William Cullen Bryant - Robert Burns - George Gordon, Lord Byron - Lewis Carroll - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - E.E. Cummings - Walter John de la Mare - Emily Dickinson - John Donne - Paul Laurence Dunbar - T. S. Eliot - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Robert Frost - Mary Elizabeth Frye - Thomas Gray - Edgar Albert Guest - Felicia Hemans - William Ernest Henley - Oliver Wendell Holmes - Gerard Manley Hopkins - James Langston Hughes - Leigh Hunt - John Keats - Joyce Kilmer - Rudyard Kipling -Emma Lazarus - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - James Lowell - Thomas Macaulay - Douglas Malloch - Christopher Marlowe - John Masefield - John McCrae - John Milton - Marianne Moore - Pablo Neruda - Edgar Allan Poe - Alexander Pope - Christina Rossetti - Carl Sandburg - Henry Scott-Holland - Alan Seeger - Robert W. Service - William Shakespeare - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Edmund Spenser - Gertrude Stein - Wallace Stevens - Robert Louis Stevenson - Sara Teasdale - Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Henry David Thoreau - Walt Whitman - John Greenleaf Whittier - Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Oscar Wilde - William Carlos Williams - William Wordsworth - W.B. Yeats

Another wonderful poetry anthology from Garrison Keillor-rooted in the American landscape. Greatness comes in many forms, and as Garrison Keillor demonstrates daily on The Writer's Almanac, the most affecting poems in the canon are in plain English. Third in Keillor's series of anthologies, Good Poems, American Places brings together poems that celebrate the geography and culture that bind us together as a nation. Think of these poems as postcards from the road, by poets who've gotten carried away by a particular place-a town in Kansas, a kitchen window in Nantucket, a Manhattan street, a farm in western Minnesota. Featuring famous poets and brash unknowns alike, the verses in this exhilarating collection prove that the heart can be exalted anywhere in America.