The Classic Hundred Poems
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2021 reads, #54. Big news -- for the first time in twenty years, I've started writing poetry again! And unlike last time, this time it ain't any of that poetry-slam nonsense either, but actual formal poetry based on actual classic poetry forms, things like sonnets and haikus and other thousand-year-......more

The editor explains that the poems in this anthology are the hundred most anthologized English language poems in other anthologies currently in use. So they are not so much favorite poems as they are instructional or illustrative of a school or historically important. They are poems to study or teac......more

Absolutely perfect! Well edited, an excellent selection of the best of poetry, and brief helpful discussions of each.......more

I enjoyed this one. There were a number of poems I remember reading in high school and haven’t seen since.......more