Waubonsee Community College

The best poems of the English language, from Chaucer through Frost, selected and with commentary by Harold Bloom

eng

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

index present

non fiction

The best poems of the English language

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selected and with commentary by Harold Bloom

from Chaucer through Frost

A collection of key works of English-language poetry encompasses works that have been written over the course of six centuries and shares some of the selector's critical reflections from the past half century

The art of reading poetry -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- William Dunbar -- Petrarchan poetry -- Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Sir Philip Sidney -- Edmund Spenser -- Sir Walter Ralegh -- Chidiock Tichborne -- Robert Southwell -- Christopher Marlowe -- Michael Drayton -- William Shakespeare -- Thomas Nashe -- Thomas Campion -- John Donne -- Ben Jonson -- Tom O'Bedlam's song -- John Cleveland -- James Shirley -- Robert Herrick -- Thomas Carew -- Richard Lovelace -- Sir John Suckling -- Edmund Waller -- Andrew Marvell -- George Herbert -- Richard Crashaw -- Henry Vaughan -- Thomas Traherne -- John Milton -- John Dryden -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester -- Alexander Pope -- Samuel Johnson -- William Collins -- Thomas Gray -- Christopher Smart -- William Cowper -- Robert Burns -- William Blake -- William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Keats -- Walter Savage Landor -- Thomas Love Peacock -- John Clare -- George Darley -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- William Cullen Bryant -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Jones Very -- Henry David Thoreau -- Julia Ward Howe -- Walt Whitman -- Herman Melville -- Emily Dickinson -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Edward Fitzgerald -- Robert Browning -- Matthew Arnold -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Christina Rossetti -- William Morris -- Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Emily Brontë -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Edward Lear -- Lewis Carroll -- George Meredith -- Rudyard Kipling -- William Butler Yeats -- Lionel Johnson -- Ernest Dowson -- Thomas Hardy -- Robert Bridges -- D.H. Lawrence -- A.E. Housman -- Wilfred Owen -- Edward Thomas -- Isaac Rosenberg -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Stephen Crane -- Trumbull Stickney -- Robert Frost -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Ezra Pound -- Elinor Wylie -- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) -- Robinson Jeffers -- Marianne Moore -- T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot -- John Crowe Ransom -- Conrad Aiken -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Louise Bogan -- John Brooks Wheelwright -- Léonie Adams -- Allen Tate -- Hart Crane