101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

............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!

This book is quite wonderful. It includes some of my all time favorite American Poets. I recommend it to anyone who likes poetry.

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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.

I love this little book of poetry! The icing on the cake is reading someone like Langston Hughes in the same volume as Walt Whitman and Emily Dickenson. In college, I had to have two books: One for the African-American Poets and another for the American Poets??? Plus, this volume is the perfect size for a bookworm like me who carries around 2 or 3 books at any one time--of course a Kindle would solve that problem! Will my wife ever get the hints???

I really enjoyed this alot. I felt I was transported into a world of great poems. There really wasn't a bad piece here. Indulge and buy this book.