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The Top 500 Poems : Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith - William Harmon

The Top 500 Poems

By: William Harmon (Editor)

Hardcover | 10 December 1992 | Edition Number 1

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Here, for the first time, is our generations' definitive view of the greatest poetry in the English language. This is the story of poetry in English, a collection of the best 500 poems, based not on one critic's choice, not on one poet's choice, but on the collective choice of 550 critics, editors, and poets.

Here are the 500 poems that speak to us across the centuries, beginning with Chaucer's words, moving to Shakespeare's masterpieces, through Donne's wonderful witticisms and Pope's elegant satires, through the perennial favorites of Blake, Wordsworth, and Keats, on through Dickinson's jewels of profundity to the ironies of Eliot and to the passion of Plath and Ginsberg in out own time. These are the 500 poems we know or want to know, arranged as an unfolding story of great literature, with comments on each by William Harmon and with a general introduction on the entire collection.

Industry Reviews
If your library can buy only one volume of poetry, let this be it. Booklist The Top 500 Poems is intriguing in concept and management, and most of us will want to own it. And for this we are grateful. -- Gwendolyn Brooks, poet A revealing snapshot of one aspect of Western civilization, even including a list of the poems in order of popularity. Globe and Mail The merriest poetry anthology of the past decade... It's everything from 'Sumer is icumen in' to Sylvia Plath's 'Daddy' with terse, plain, and rather wonderful commentary by Harmon. Buffalo News It is rare indeed to come across a book in which wisdom and love come together as powerfully as they do for William Harmon. -- John Frederick Nims, coauthor of Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry

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