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101 Famous Poems

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This is an old anthology which I have read and treasured since I was a child. I don't know where the volume I fell in love with came from, only that it was very old, and barely holding together at the time and a great deal of the authors were still alive at the time. I was ecstatic to find a new paperback edition when I was in my early twenties and now I am replacing it with a hardback edition. I love every poem in there and believe that this one book began a lifelong love of poetry that continues now and in the future. You simply cannot go wrong in purchasing this book if you have a love for poetry or simply a new interest in it. It will start you on a rewarding reading pleasure no matter how vague your interest. The price is right, the material is priceless. Happy reading.

My father had an old copy of this book that he read as a child. He loved to read his favorites from this book, or simply recite them from memory. They are classic rhyming poems. Another favorite book of mine is "Poetry for a Lifetime", a beautiful volume which includes a number of these poems, including "Plant a Tree" and "Home". It has a much larger number of poems and is illustrated and has comments from the editor. I highly recommend both books.

This was my Dad's poetry text at college in the thirties. Every Christmas during his life he would read the 'holiday' poems to our family. I have carried on the tradition for my children and grandchildren and each year they await the reading of 'Bairnies Coodle Doon' and 'Jes for Christmas', two wonderful stories that bring forward the lives of children of a hundred years ago. If tradition is important to you and if you want to introduce your family to poetry as America knew it for the first 200 years, this collection if highly recommended.

I read this book as a child 40 years ago. The poems in this book are timeless classics. I look forward to sharing them with my own children.

From the time I was only a few years old, my father was reading to me from this book of famous poems. I still have my "dog eared" copy given to me from my father. Today, when our family gets together for celebrations, my father and I always find time to sit alone and share a few of these timeless verses etched in our memories. For anyone who enjoys the mental painting of beautifully phrased words, this book is for you. It has 101 of the best poems in the world, with a good variety of authors and well chosen classics. You will not be disappointed.

I fell in love with this book when I first perused it many years ago at the house of a friend. Whenever I would go over there I would grab it from off the shelf. It was very old, so I never suspected it was still in print. Needless to say, I was thrilled to obtain my own copy, which remains on my bedstand.

I love this book. The poems are great and I can find the poems that Anne says in the movie, "Anne of green Gables" and "Anne of Avonlee" I love the poems. I like These are the Times That try Mens Soals.

A copy of this book was given to me at the tender age of six. From that point on, it became my favorite book. Today, I am 30, and I still cherish my old dog-eared copy. Rudyard Kipling's "If" and Eugene O'Neils's "The Duel" are just a few of the delights waiting for you.

Unfortunately, this volume only represents European and Americans-of-the-"White"-Persuasion authors. For a more well-rounded collection of the world's poetry, you will have to find other books to supplement this one.

Highly recommended. :)

i have to say that i enjoy reading poems, but then too much of old classics that in the end i gave up and gave it to my father in law ;))). maybe some sort of generation gap here (plus cultural gap! as i m an asian), well, i will then try some more modern stuffs... ;))). anyway whoever love old classics should have this, and to grace a library, this is also a must... Tanadi Santoso, 12/97