The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth. Early in the year by my friend's gift / Wendell Berry -- We grow accustomed to the dark / Emily Dickinson -- Holy sonnet XIV / John Donne -- Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Preludes / T.S. Eliot -- Bilingual / Rhina P. Espaillat -- Road not taken ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Words / Dana Gioia -- Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden -- Love (III) / George Herbert -- The Iliad: book 1, 1-14 (trans. by Alexander Pope) ; The odyssey: book XXIII, 208-230 (trans. by W. Cowper) / Homer -- God's grandeur ; As kingfishers catch fire / Gerad Manley Hopkins -- Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- Act of imagination / Elizabeth Jennings -- Bright star / John Keats -- Let evening come / Jane Kenyon -- Mark Anthony's speech from Julius Caesar ; Agincourt speech from Henry V ; Portia's speech from The merchant of Venice / William Shakespeare -- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Listening to Peter and the wolf with Jason, aged three / A.E. Stallings -- House was quiet and the world was calm / Wallace Stevens -- Sailing to Byzantium / W.B. Yeats -- Love call us to the things of the world / Richard Wilbur -- The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth.
Summary:
Featuring some of the most essential poems ever written. Each poem, which has been carefully selected by a panel of poets, educators, and scholars, has been chosen for its memorizable-ness and for the properties within the poem that make it worth learning by heart, and keeping there. Alongside each poem is a brief but thoughtful essay that explores the poem and identifies questions to ask, images to contemplate, and forms to revel in.
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