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The giant book of poetry

Offers a collection of award-winning poems.
Print Book, English, [2006]
Level Four Press, San Diego, CA, [2006]
Poetry
748 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780976800125, 0976800128
65196863
Unknown (possibly 4,000 BC)
Archilochos (circa 700 BC
650 BC)
The Bible
Mei Sheng (circa 1
40 BC)
Horace (65 BC
8 BC)
Norse myth (circa 50 BC)
Petronius Arbiter (27 AD
66 AD)
Tao Yuan-ming (To-Em-Mei) (365
427)
Li Po (701
762)
Omar Khayam (1044
1123)
Moritake (1452
1540)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554
1586)
Robert Greene (1560
1592)
Michael Drayton (1563
1631)
William Shakespeare (1564
1616)
Thomas Campion (1567
1619)
Sir Henry Wotton (1568
1639)
John Donne (1572
1631)
William Drummond (1585
1649)
Robert Herrick (1591
1674)
Thomas Carew (1595
1639)
John Milton (1608
1674)
Sir John Suckling (1609
1642)
Abraham Cowley (1618
1667)
Richard Lovelace (1618
1667)
William Walsh (1663
1708)
William Congreve (1670
1729)
Ryusui (1691
1758). Jokun (circa 1700)
William Blake (1757
1827)
Robert Burns (1759
1796)
William Wordsworth (1770
1850)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772
1864)
Robert Southey (1774
1843)
Walter Savage Landor (1775
1864)
Thomas Moore (1779
1852)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788
1824) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792
1822)
John Clare (1793
1864)
William Cullen Bryant (1794
1878)
John Keats (1795
1821)
Thomas Hood (1799
1845)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803
1882)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806
1861)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807
1882)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807
1892)
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809
1894)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809
1849)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809
1892)
Robert Browning (1812
1889)
Edward Lear (1812
1888)
Emily Bronte (1818
1848)
Charles Kingsley (1819
1875)
Walt Whitman (1819
1892). Charles Baudelaire (1821
1867)
Coventry Palmore (1823
1896)
Richard Henry Stoddard (1805
1923)
Emily Dickinson (1830
1886)
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830
1894)
Lewis Carroll (1832
1898)
Thomas Hardy (1840
1928)
Sidney Lanier (1842
1881)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844
1889)
Edward Rowland Sill (1847
1881)
William Ernest Henley (1849
1903)
Eugene Field (1850
1895)
Robert Luis Stevenson (1850
1894)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850
1919)
A.E. Housman (1859
1936)
James B. Naylor (1860
1935)
Black Elk (1863
1950)
Rudyard Kipling (1865
1930)
William Butler Yeats (1865
1930)
Shiki (Masaoka Tseunenori) (1867
1902)
Edgar Lee Masters (1868
1950)
Roka (1868
1927)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869
1935)
Stephen Crane (1871
1900)
W.H. Davies (1871
1940)
Robert Frost (1874
1963)
Amy Lowell (1874
1958)
Gertrude Stein (1874
1946)
Carl Sandburg (1878
1967)
Vachel Lindsay (1879
1955). Marjorie Allen Seiffert (1881
1968)
William Carlos Williams (1883
1963)
Sara Teasdale (1884
1933)
D.H. Lawrence (1885
1930)
Ezra Pound (1885
1972)
Louis Untermeyer (1885
1972)
Rupert Brooke (1887
1915)
Robinson Jeffers (1887
1962)
Joyce Kilmer (1887
1918)
Marianne Moore (1887
1972)
T.S. Elliot (1888
1965)
Anna Akhmatova (1889
1966)
Archibald MacLeish (1892
1982)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892
1950)
Wilfred Owen (1893
1918)
Lucian Blaga (1895
1961)
Miyazawa Kenji (1896
1933)
Louise Bogan (1897
1970)
Ernest Hemingway (1899
1960)
Wen I-to (1899-1946)
Anonymous. Langston Hughes (1902
1967)
Steve Smith (1902
1983)
W.H. Auden (1907
1973)
Zawgee (1907
1973)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911
1979)
May Swenson (1913
1989)
David Ignatow (1914
1997)
Randall Jarrell (1914
1965)
William Stafford (1914
1993)
Dylon Thomas (1914
1953)
Robert Lax (1915
2000)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917
2000)
Robert Lowell (1917
1977)
Keith Douglas (1920
1944)
Howard Nemerov (1920
1991)
Hayden Carruth (b. 1921)
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
Philip Larkin (1922
1985)
James Dickey (1923
1997)
Alan Dugan (1923
2003)
Denise Levertov (1923
1997)
Lisel Mueller (b. 1924)
Roberto Juarroz (1925
1995)
Donald Justice (1925
2004)
Carolyn Kizer (b. 1925)
Robert Creeley (1926
2005)
Galway Kinnell (b. 1927)
James Wright (1927
1980)
Irving Feldman (b. 1928)
Philip Levine (b. 1928)
Anne Sexton (1928
1974)
Thom Gunn (1929
2004). Dan Pagis (1930
1986)
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
Derek Walcott (b. 1930)
Miller Williams (b. 1930)
Etheridge Knight (1931
1991)
Tanikawa Shuntaro (b. 1931)
Adrian Mitchell (b. 1932)
Heberto Padilla (1932
2000)
Alden Nowlan (1933
1983)
Richard Shelton (b. 1933)
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934)
Rutger Kopland (b. 1934)
Mark Strand (b. 1934)
Paul Zimmer (b. 1934)
David R. Slavitt (b. 1935)
C.K. Williams (b. 1936)
Gail Mazur (b. 1937)
Diane Wakoski (b. 1937)
Robert Phillips (b. 1938)
Charles Simic (b. 1938)
Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
Ted Kooser (b. 1939)
David Budbill (b. 1940)
Thomas M. Disch (b. 1940)
Robert Pinsky (b.1940)
Billy Collins (b. 1941)
Toi Derricotte (b. 1941)
Stephen Dobyns (b. 1941)
Eamon Grennan (b. 1941)
Gerald Kocklin (b. 1941)
Jack Myers (b. 1941)
Nancy Vieira Couto (b. 1942)
Stuart Dybek (b. 1942)
B.H. Fairchild (b. 1942)
Tom Hennen (b. 1942)
David Huddle (b. 1942)
Louis Jenkins (b. 1942)
William Matthews (1942
1997)
Sharon Olds (b. 1942)
Dave Smith (b. 1942)
Sharon Bryan (b. 1943). PhilipSchultz (b. 1945)
Ronald Wallace (b. 1945)
Tom Wayman (b. 1945)
Adam Zagajewski (b. 1945)
Andrei Codrescu (b. 1946)
Larry Levis (1946
1996)
Brian Patten (b. 1946)
Maura Stanton (b. 1946)
Lorna Goodson (b. 1947)
Kaylin Haught (b. 1947)
Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)
Heather McHugh (b. 1948)
Agha Shahid Ali (1949
2001)
Mark Halliday (b. 1949)
Robert Hedin (b. 1949)
Joyce Sutphen (b. 1949)
Bruce Weigl (b. 1949)
Claribel Algeria (b. 1950)
Charles Burnstein (b.1950)
Jorie Graham (b. 1950)
Michael Pettit (b. 1950)
Brigit Pegeen Kelly (b. 1951)
Timothy Russell (b. 1951)
Nuala Ni Dhomhnail (b. 1952)
Sean O'Brien (b. 1952)
Shu Ting (b. 1952)
Mark Irwin (b. 1953)
Richard Jones (b.1953)
Robert Kinsley (b. 1953)
Mark Turpin (b. 1953)
Kevin Hart (b. 1954)
Molly Fisk (b. 1955)
Mark Cox (b. 1956)
Jim Daniels (b. 1956)
Gu Gheng (1956
1993)
Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)
Julia Kasdorf (b. 1962)
Ruth L. Schwartz (b. 1962)
Patience Aghabi (b. 1965)
Kate Clanchy (b. 1965)
David Berman (b. 1967)
Jackleen Holton (b. 1969)
Jane Flanders (b. 1984)
Includes indexes