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Anthologies
- Quiller-Couch, Arthur, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse.
- For this collection, the venerable Quiller-Couch, “tried to range over the whole field of English verse from the beginning, or from the thirteenth century to this closing year of the nineteenth, and to choose the best.”
- Lounsbury, Thomas, ed. 1919. Yale Book of American Verse.
- With his passion for the study of literary history and the American language, Lounsbury proves to be the ideal editor for this all-inclusive collection of American verse through 1912.
- Untermeyer, Louis, ed.
- 1919. Modern American Poetry.
Modern American Poetry contains over 130 poems from such American masters as Ezra Pound, Sara Teasdale, Stephen Vincent Benét and Emily Dickinson.
- 1920. Modern British Poetry.
Modern British Poetry contains nearly 180 poems of Britain’s most revered poets, including Drayton, Herrick, Blake, Housman, Davies, and Hodgson.
- Grierson, Herbert J.C., ed. 1921. Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C.
- Grierson’s compendious collection of seventeen-century metaphysical poetry, verse which “has been inspired by a philosophical conception of the universe,” is organized into three section: love poems, divine poems, and miscellanies.
- Palgrave, Francis, ed. 1921. The Golden Treasury.
- The Golden Treasury contains nearly 300 original lyrical pieces and songs by such famous poets as Milton, Shakespeare, Shelley, Byron, Cowper, Burns and Spenser.
- Indexes to Poems: Chronologic, Author, Title, First Line.
- Hyperlinked indexes to the 1,881 poems that comprise Bartleby.com’s verse anthologies.
Volumes
- Chapman, George, trans. 1857. The Odysseys of Homer.
- Chapman’s elegant 1614–16 translation of Homer’s epic The Odyssey.
- Dickinson, Emily. 1924. Complete Poems.
- Comprising 597 poems of the Belle of Amherst.
- Eliot, T.S.
- 1917. Prufrock and Other Observations.
This collection of poems contains one of Eliot’s first and most well-know poems, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” as well as “Portrait of a Lady,” “The Boston Evening Transcript” and “Conversation Galante.”
- 1920. Poems.
Collection of twelve poems written by T.S. Eliot in 1920. Selections include “Lune de Miel,” “The Hippopotamus” and “Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service.”
- 1922. The Waste Land.
- Perhaps Eliot’s most famous piece, this controversial poem details the journey of the human soul searching for redemption.
- Frost, Robert
- These collections of poems provide a wonderful selection of the work of Robert Frost. His poems are concerned with human tragedies and fears, his reaction to the complexities of life, and his ultimate acceptance of his burdens.
1915. A Boy’s Will.
1915. North of Boston.
1920. Mountain Interval.
1920. Miscellaneous Poems.
- Graves, Robert. 1918. Fairies and Fusiliers.
- Much of Graves’s poetry focuses on his experiences in World War I—as evidenced in the forty-six collected poems of Fairies and Fusiliers.
- Hardy, Thomas. 1898. Wessex Poems & Other Verses.
- Like many of Hardy’s novels, the 51 poems of Wessex Poems and Other Verses are all set against the bleak and forbidding Dorset landscape, whose physical harshness echoes that of an indifferent, if not malevolent, universe.
- Hopkins, G.M. 1918. Poems.
- Considered an early Modern poet ahead of his Victorian time, G.M. Hopkins’s verse is notable for his use of sprung rhythm and intricate use of language and rhyme.
- Housman, A.E. 1896. A Shropshire Lad.
- This collection of verse is Housman’s signature work reflecting on passing of youth in the English countryside.
- Keats, John. 1884. Poetical Works.
- A master of blank and lyrical verse, this 1884 collection includes all of Keats’s major and minor works.
- Lawrence, D.H.
- These two collections of verse were written as D.H. Lawrence’s career began its climb towards fame and controversy.
1916. Amores.
1916. New Poems.
- Masters, Edgar Lee. 1916. Spoon River Anthology.
- In Masters’s wonderful collection of post-mortem autobiographical “epitaphs,” 244 former citizens of the fictional Spoon River, Illinois, tell us the truth about their lives—with the honesty no fear of consequences enables.
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent. 1917. Renascence and Other Poems.
- Renascence and Other Poems, Edna St. Vincent Millay’s first volume of poetry, was praised for its freshness and vitality.
- Sandburg, Carl
- Carl Sandburg celebrated his romance with America in these two famous
collections.
1916. Chicago Poems.
1918. Cornhuskers.
- Sassoon, Siegfried
- Sassoon’s poetry—at times violent, always honest—expressed his conviction of the brutality and waste of war in grim, forceful, realistic verse.
1918. The Old Huntsman and Other Poems.
1918. Counter-Attack and Other Poems.
1920. Picture-Show.
- Shakespeare, William. 1914. The Oxford Shakespeare.
- The 37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous verse that constitute the unrivaled literary cornerstone of Western civilization.
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe. 1901. Complete Poetical Works.
- Shelley’s poetry reveals his philosophy, a combination of belief in the power of human love and reason, and faith in the perfectibility and ultimate progress of man. This partial collection contains such masterpieces as Prometheus Unbound, The Revolt of Islam, and The Cenci.
- Stein, Gertrude. 1914. Tender Buttons.
- A poetic series of “cubist” verbal portraits on such things as objects, food, and rooms.
- Stevenson, Robert Louis. 1913. A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods, with Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Alexander Harvey.
- Two of Stevenson’s best-loved verse collections comprising 121 poems, some in Scots.
- Whitman, Walt. 1900. Leaves of Grass.
- In 1855 Whitman published Leaves of Grass (later known as Song of Myself) in which the author proclaims himself the symbolic representative of common people.
- Wilde, Oscar. 1881. Poems.
- Wilde’s first published work, Poems (1881), was well received and served as a springboard for his 1882 United States lecture tour.
- Wordsworth, William. 1888. Complete Poetical Works.
- This 1888 complete collection contains nearly 900 of Wordworth’s poems, including the classics “The Prelude,” “Ode to Duty” and “The World Is Too Much with Us.”
- Yeats, William Butler
- Collections of verse by one of the greatest lyric poets of twentieth-century literature.
1899. The Wind Among the Reeds.
1916. Responsibilities and Other Poems.
1919. The Wild Swans at Coole.
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