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    101 Great American Poems
    101 Great American Poems
    101 Great American Poems
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    101 Great American Poems

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    Focusing on popular verse from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this treasury of great American poems offers a taste of the nation's rich poetic legacy. Selected for both popularity and literary quality, the compilation includes Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing," and Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn," as well as poems by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and many other notables.
    Chosen by the non-profit organization American Poetry & Literacy Project, these much-loved verses include 13 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "Casey at the Bat," "Fog," "The New Colossus," "Chicago," "I, Too, Sing America," "O Captain! My Captain!," "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Road Not Taken," "The Raven," "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "Mending Wall," "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateApr 4, 2012
    ISBN9780486110264
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    • 4/5
      The purpose of this slim volume (just 80 pages) is to make great poetry more available. The book is currently selling for $1.50 on Amazon. The poems are arranged in chronological order starting in the 1600s and ending in the late 1900s and each is introduced with a short paragraph about the poet. A number of them I had read back in grade school but many were new to me. My favorites ended up being by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Edna St. Vincent Millay. This is a book that could easily be carried in a purse or briefcase and read when time permitted. I loved it and will be keeping it on my shelves.
    • 4/5
      What a pity I waited so long to read this. As I expected, the small volume contains excellent poems of Cummings, Emerson, Longfellow, Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, Gertrude Stein and Robert Frost.But, the true delight was discovering unknown poets. Here are two of my favorites:Ella Wheeler WilcoxThe description notes she was a prolific author all her life and wrote her first novel at the age of nine!SolitudeLaugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone.For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,But has trouble enough of its own.Sing, and the hills with anser;Sigh, it is lost on the air.The echoes bound to a joyful sound,But shrink for voicing care.Rejoice, and men will seek you;Grieve, and they turn and go.They want full measure of all your pleasure,But they do not need your woe.Be glad, and your friends are many;Be sad, and you lose them all.There are none to decline your nectared wine,But alone you must drink life's fallFeast, and your halls are crowded;Fast, and the world goes by.Succeed and give, and it helps you live,But no man can help you die.There is room in the halls of pleasureFor a long and lordly train,But one by one we must all file onThrough the narrow aisles of pain.-----------------------------After reading this, I thought of the blessings of friends who make life so much easier by caring and sharing. So many difficult times in my life were/are shared by loving friends.---------------------------The real gem in this book of 101 Great American Poems took my breath away as I read and re-read the message.I've never heard of Countee Cullen (1903-1946) but vow to find more of his works.The descriptive sentences note that although he wished to be known primarily as a poet and not as a Negro poet. From 1943 until his death, he was a teacher in the New York City public schools.IncidentOnce riding in old Baltimore,Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,I saw a BaltimoreanKeep looking straight at me.Now I was eight and very small,And he was no whit bigger,And so I smiled, but he poked outHis tongue, and called me, "Nigger."I saw the whole of BaltimoreFrom May until December;Of all the things that happened thereThat's all that I remember.-----------------------------------What power in these few short paragraphs! As in any good writing, the images and thoughts take me on a road of remembrance. This poem elicited feelings of when, as a child of poverty, I experienced the cutting, sharp, nasty words of ignorance.
    • 4/5
      One could endlessly debate which poems to include in a collection of 101 American poems, but overall this collection is pretty representative of American poetry.

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