Customer Reviews

Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics Series) (4th Edition)

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This is a great anthology. The best you are going to find unless you go with one of the giant anthologies. This one is cheaper and definitely less heavy than, lets say Norton's anthology. And because it is a 'pocket anthology' it cuts out the weaker poems making this a strong group of poems.

I purchased this anthology for my poetry class. It provides all the information that you need for poetry reading, writing and analysis (poetry elements, structure...etc).

I bought this book for a college poetry class and it is great. There is a whole range of poets from classical (e.g. William Blake, Edmund Spenser) to modern (e.g. Sylvia Plath, Julia Alvarez). No one poet has too many works, and they are mostly represented by their more famous works, but it is a great buy.

This book is full of great authors and amazing works of poetry. I had to purchase it for class, and the only real complaint I have is a MAJOR one (Academically). The index at the front of the book does not seem to be in any real chronological or alphabetical order. When my teacher would tell me to read Rita Dove's poem, it would literally take me ten minutes to find where she was in the massive index of poets.

Other than that, great book, worth the money (for school, for recreational use: there is probably better)

I would like to say that the book was like new. Thanks so much for saving me time and $$

An excellent text that includes an impressive number of poems as well as useful commentary on the art of poetry and specific terminology. This is my third time using this book.