This outstanding anthology of short verse offers poetry lovers animpressive sampling of more than 150 masterpieces spanning over400 years of English and American literary history. Although short inlength (the longest are 24 lines, most 16 lines or less), these poemsare long on beauty, power, imagination, and originality.
Included are such memorable compositions as John Donne's "DeathBe Not Proud," Shakespeare's "When, in Disgrace with Fortune andMen's Eyes," "On His Blindness," by John Milton, William Blake's"The Tyger," Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," Byron's"She Walks in Beauty," Shelley's "Ozymandias," as well as works byTennyson, Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, AmyLowell, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay,Langston Hughes, Dylan Thomas, Paul Laurence Dunbar, andmany others.