101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)

by Edgar Allan Poe (Author), Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Frost (Author), Langston Hughes (Author), Emily Dickinson (Author), T S. Eliot (Author), Marianne Moore (Author), The American Poetry & Literacy Project (Editor)

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Product Description
Rich treasury of verse from 19th and 20th centuries, selected for popularity and literary quality, includes Poe’s "The Raven," Whitman’s "I Hear America Singing," as well as poems by Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, many other notables.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications (January 21, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486401588
• ISBN-13: 978-0486401584
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,608 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quite a Bang for Your Buck!.........., November 18, 2001

By	Margaret "fugirl" (NYC) - See all my reviews

............this small book of poetry contains the work of nearly forty of the best known American poets. From Emily Dickinson to Walt Whitman to Edgar Allan Poe to Robert Frost, there are poems in this collection that are sure to appeal to everyone! Also represented in this collection are ten women poets and eight African Americans including Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes and Phyllis Wheatley. There's even a poem by Abraham Lincoln that reveals his thoughts about his childhood experiences.

This collection is a simple, inexpensive way to introduce oneself to the wonderful world of American poetry. Each poet is introduced with a short biography followed by his or her most memorable work. Great buy!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The American school anthology , May 2, 2005

By	Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

This is a wonderful collection of American poetry classics. It contains most of the poems that have been taught through the years in American schools as the ' classics ' of American Literature. It does not really touch the American poetry of the past fifty years.
Most of its poems are the shorter poems of great poetic masters , for instance for Wallace Stevens, " Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird' and the 'Emperor of Ice- Cream' but not the 'Idea of Order at Key West' for Eliot, " Prufrock" but not the "Wasteland " or the "Quartets".
A wonderful collection most highly recommended.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An Overview of Already-Familiar American Poems, August 20, 2001

By	Chelle - See all my reviews

The project undertaken is much larger than this small book can handle. It includes many of the old classic poems from which Americans know a line or two, so it is handy if you are studying trivia or if it just really, really bugs you when you can't remember what something is from. I guess that's my main use for the book. Much of it will seem rehashed if you are interested in poetry and looking for something new.

Perhaps you will enjoy this book more if you are new to poetry; my advice is to choose a poem you like, then read more by that author. On the other hand, for a dollar you can hardly go wrong adding this book to another order. You might buy a couple and hand them around just to raise awareness of poetry, which isn't read in schools as it was a hundred years ago.