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English Romantic Poetry: An AnthologyEnglish Romantic Poetry: An Anthology 
by Stanley Appelbaum
Features 123 poems by 6 great poets: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. Introduction and brief commentaries on the poets.


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Selected PoemsSelected Poems 
by Emily Dickinson
Over 100 best-known, best-loved poems by one of America's foremost poets, reprinted from authoritative early editions. No comparable edition at this price. Index of first lines.


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Great Love PoemsGreat Love Poems 
by Shane Weller
Over 150 familiar works by English and American poets: John Donne's "The Ecstasy," William Blake's "The Garden of Love," as well as poems by Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Whitman, Emily Dickinson, many more.


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Great Poems by American Women: An AnthologyGreat Poems by American Women: An Anthology 
by Susan L. Rattiner
Superb, inexpensive anthology spans 4 centuries to include more than 200 inspiring poems by Emily Dickinson, Hilda Doolittle, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and others.

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Great Short PoemsGreat Short Poems 
by Paul Negri
Outstanding anthology features more than 150 English and American masterpieces spanning over 400 years. "Death Be Not Proud," "The Tyger," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," plus works by Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, others.

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101 Great American Poems101 Great American Poems 
by The American Poetry & Literacy Project
Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries includes works by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, other notables.


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100 Best-Loved Poems100 Best-Loved Poems
by Philip Smith
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Death, be not proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, many others.



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101 Great American Poems101 Great American Poems
by The American Poetry & Literacy Project
Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries includes works by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, other notables.



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African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927
by Joan R. Sherman
Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to 20th-century work of Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, and Langston Hughes. Introduction.



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Complete SonnetsComplete Sonnets
by William Shakespeare
Over 150 exquisite poems deal with love, friendship, the tyranny of time, beauty's evanescence, death, and other themes in language of remarkable power, precision, and beauty. Glossary of archaic terms.


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English Romantic Poetry: An AnthologyEnglish Romantic Poetry: An Anthology
by Stanley Appelbaum
Features 123 poems by 6 great poets: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. Introduction and brief commentaries on the poets.



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Great Love PoemsGreat Love Poems
by Shane Weller
Over 150 familiar works by English and American poets: John Donne's "The Ecstasy," William Blake's "The Garden of Love," as well as poems by Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Whitman, Emily Dickinson, many more.



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Great Poems by American Women: An AnthologyGreat Poems by American Women: An Anthology
by Susan L. Rattiner
Superb, inexpensive anthology spans 4 centuries to include more than 200 inspiring poems by Emily Dickinson, Hilda Doolittle, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and others.


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Great Short PoemsGreat Short Poems
by Paul Negri
Outstanding anthology features more than 150 English and American masterpieces spanning over 400 years. "Death Be Not Proud," "The Tyger," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," plus works by Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, others.


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Great SonnetsGreat Sonnets
by Paul Negri
Treasury of over 170 English and American sonnets by more than 70 poets, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Masterpieces by Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Blake, Swinburne, Yeats, Frost, Poe, many more.



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The InfernoThe Inferno
by Dante Alighieri, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The first stop on Dante's famous journey from Hell to Purgatory to Paradise, this 14th-century allegorical poem blends vivid and shocking imagery with graceful lyricism. Translated by the beloved 19th-century poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.



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Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 EditionLeaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition
by Walt Whitman
Whitman's immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his masterpiece, "Song of Myself." Shattering standard conventions, it stands as an unabashed celebration of body and nature.


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Selected Canterbury TalesSelected Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Delightful collection includes the General Prologue plus three of the most popular tales: "The Knight's Tale," "The Miller's Prologue and Tale," and "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale." In modern English.


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Selected PoemsSelected Poems
by Emily Dickinson
Over 100 best-known, best-loved poems by one of America's foremost poets, reprinted from authoritative early editions. No comparable edition at this price. Index of first lines.



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Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and AdventureSongs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure
by The American Poetry & Literacy Project
More than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrate real and metaphorical journeys. Poems by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, many others. Note.



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Sonnets from the PortugueseSonnets from the Portuguese
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Famed series of 44 love poems written to the poet's husband, Robert Browning, plus a selection of poems dealing with religion, art, social problems, and political events. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.


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Spoon River AnthologySpoon River Anthology
by Edgar Lee Masters
An American poetry classic, in which former citizens of a mythical midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dreams of their lives.



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Wit and Wisdom of the American Presidents: A Book of QuotationsWit and Wisdom of the American Presidents: A Book of Quotations
by Joslyn Pine
Over 400 memorable quotes: Coolidge's "The chief business of America is business," Carter's "Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread," Bush's "Read my lips: no new taxes," many more.



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World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and OthersWorld War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others
by Candace Ward
Rich selection of powerful, moving verse includes Brooke's "The Soldier," Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "In Flanders Fields," by Lieut. Col. McCrae, more by Hardy, Kipling, many others.



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