Essential Poetry

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An Invitation to Poetry
808.81 INV
A product of the Favorite Poem Project at the Library of Congress, this collection, with companion DVD, contains poems selected by readers and includes personal observations and reactions to each piece.

Three Centuries of American Poetry
811.008 THR
This overview of America's poetic heritage features work written between 1623 and 1923.

Poetry Speaks
811.509 POE
Contributors, from Alfred, Lord Tennyson to Sylvia Plath, read their poetry on audio CD.

The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
811.5408 OUT
A work that covers the Beat poetry in the '50s to the spoken word of today—words, visions, and extravagant lives of bohemians, beatniks, hippies, punks, and slackers.

180 More
811.608 ONE
Inspired by Billy Collins’ Poem a Day program with the Library of Congress, this collection features 180 “reader friendly” contemporary poems.


The Best Poems of the English Language
821.008 BES
This comprehensive anthology offers six centuries of great British and American poetry, with commentary by respected critic Harold Bloom.

The Classic Hundred Poems
821.008 CLA
Presents the "top 100" poems of all time as determined by a consensus of over 1,000 compilers.

100 Essential Modern Poems
821.9108 PAR
Collects one hundred poems from the past century that reflect modern culture, including works by William Butler Yeats, Dorothy Parker, Langston Hughes, Wallace Stegner, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

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