101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

101 of the very best American Poems are collected in the small book for just .99 cent. It covers Longfellow, Poe, Whitman, Frost and William Carlos Williams and Langston Hughes. As well as Emily Dickinson, Sara Teasdale and Edna St. Vincent Millay All the great and near great America poems get a page in this small anthology. For the price it is hard to beat and is a quick overview of the great and near great America poets, Myself I love the works of Dickinson and Poe, but I was surprised finding myself also falling in love with Teasdale, Frost, Millay and e.e. cumming.

Like so many other Kindle books, the lack of index links in this e-book for titles or first lines makes it pure drudgery to attempt to find a title. If it were a novel, it would be fine...one would simply read it from start to end. But poetry doesn't work that way. It's an ideal example of how NOT to organize a book of poems.

This collection of poems from different poets from our past generation was well written, intriguing, and powerful. Enjoyed them all. I would recommend this book to all poets and poem readers, also I would highly recommend to all, "Through DeVinci Eyes: Poetry of Evolution" by Leonardo DeVinci Thomas, a powerful poetry book that will inspire and touch your heart, mind, soul, and spirit.

I purchased this for a family member, because it included so many of the poems I had read through my school years. It hits some of the more common "high points." I would probably opt to upgrade to a book with more "heft," as this one is made of telephone book-like materials. Less than I had hoped for, but still fine for a "carry-around" book of poetry.

Anne Bradstreet
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Phillis Wheatley
"From To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth"
William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Concord Hymn
The Snow-storm
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Arrow and the Song
The Builders
The Children's Hour
The Day is Done
Paul Revere's Ride
Edgar Allan Poe
Alone
Annabel Lee
The Conqueror Worm
The Raven
To Helen
Abraham Lincoln
My Childhood's Home I see Again
"Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."
Old Ironsides
Herman Melville
Misgivings
Walt Whitman
I Hear America Singing
I Sit and Look Out
Miracles
A Noiseless Patient Spider
O Captain! My Captain!
From Song of Myself
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Frances E. W. Harper
Bury Me in a Free Land
Songs for the People
Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death'
Death sets a thing significant'
Hope is the thing with feathers'
I died for beauty'
If I can stop one heart from breaking'
I'm nobody! Who are you?'
My life closed twice before its close'
Success is counted sweetest'
There is no frigate like a book'
This is my letter to the world'
Emma Lazarus
The New Colossus
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Solitude
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Casey at the Bat
Edgar Lee Masters
The Unknown
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Miniver Cheevy
Mr. Flood's Party
Richard Cory
Stephen Crane
I saw a man pursuing the horizon'
War Is Kind
James Weldon Johnson
Sence You Went Away
Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Lesson
Sympathy
We Wear the Mask
Gertrude Stein
Susie Asado
Robert Frost
Acquainted with the Night
After Apple-Picking
Birches
Design
Fire and Ice
Mending Wall
Nothing Gold Can Stay
The Road Not Taken
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Two Tramps in Mud Time
Carl Sandburg
Chicago
"I am the People, the Mob"
Vachel Lindsay
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
Euclid
The Leaden-Eyed
Wallace Stevens
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Gubbinal
The Reader
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
William Carlos Williams
The Great Figure
The Red Wheelbarrow
This is Just To Say
The Widow's Lament in Springtime
Sara Teasdale
Peace
Ezra Pound
In a station of the Metro
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
Robinson Jeffers
"Shine, Perishing Republic"
"Shine, Republic"
Marianne Moore
Poetry
T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Claude McKay
After the Winter
If We Must Die
The Tropics in New York
Edna St. Vincent Millay
First Fig
Recuerdo
Archibald MacLeish
Ars Poetica
The End of the World
E.E. Cummings
since feeling is first
Jean Toomer
Her Lips Are Copper Wire
Reapers
Langston Hughes
Dream Deferred (Harlem)
"I, Too"
Little Old Letter
Mother to Son
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Still Here
Countee Cullen
For Paul Laurence Dunbar
Incident
W.H. Auden
The Unknown Citizen

These are generally familiar poems by established American poets from the beginning of American literature through Wallace Stevens and a few other mid twentieth-century poets. The book, like all Dover Thrift Editions, is intended to be inexpensive. It could easily be used in the schoolroom as a refresher or introduction to American poetry.

Many poems here that I had learned in grade school and beyond. Some that had never read or heard before. I am grateful to have this book as a reference to remember the work of the great composers of rhyme in America.

Not what I expected, but not a total disappointment. The book and the pages are very cheaply made and it feels like the spine will give at any moment... you get what you pay for. The content is decent, but if I had to do it all over again, I'd have paid more for something a lot nicer.

Wow...just wow....101 fantastic poems packed into this little book, as an aspiring poet there is so much to take from this and I encourage anyone who reads this to buy this book. It is an educational tool and it is also quite entertaining.

Though this is a nicely priced small collection of classic poetry, I can't forgive them for publishing Dickinson's work without her original punctuation. Those changes disrupt the flow and are an affront to her work. It's like taking the entire string section out of a performance of the Blue Danube. Even so, it might be worth picking up for someone you want to introduce to a variety of poetry. I bought a copy for my elderly aunt and given the price it's not a complete loss.

This is just a great collection of poets and poems. Many of the poets are persons who I knew of but knew nothing about their poetry, such as William Cullin Bryant and Abraham Lincoln. Others are poets I had never heard of such as Anne Bradstreet. I always enjoy these poems and learn so much when I study the poems and poets.

One of the poets included here is James Weldon Johnson. James Weldon Johnson is one of my favorite poets, but I do not necessarily feel the selection here is the one that I would pick to exemplify his elegance.

Phillis Wheatley is also included. I am very glad that she is included. Phillis Wheatley was born in Africa, and brought to America as a child, without her parents. I certainly believe that English is her second language. Phillis Wheatley truly amazes me, and is worthy of study for many reasons. She had to have been some sort of linguistic and artistic savant. Thank You...

Some say that variety or in this case, diversity in art, is the spice of life. No matter how serious of a point this is, Anytime Anyone sets out to put together such a diverse collection, there will Always be some that will mock it. But this is a given since art & beauty will always be in the heart of the beholder. You either love it or hate it. This goes for everyone on this small planet. That's art... in a nutshell. I learned, read this in an essay called "Art & Opposition" in a great book named "Seven At The Sevens" (2012). Both books are worthy. If nothing else, they're worthy because of the diversity of art. Savor each one differently, as a unique and different work of art.

This is a wonderful collection of American poetry classics. It contains most of the poems that have been taught through the years in American schools as the ' classics ' of American Literature. It does not really touch the American poetry of the past fifty years.

Most of its poems are the shorter poems of great poetic masters , for instance for Wallace Stevens, " Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird' and the 'Emperor of Ice- Cream' but not the 'Idea of Order at Key West' for Eliot, " Prufrock" but not the "Wasteland " or the "Quartets".

A wonderful collection most highly recommended.

The editors made their choices, not always what I would have included. The works do however live up to the title. Though I will probably not revisit some, I will certainly read and reread many of my favorites in waiting rooms, auto trips on my Kindle. That's why I acquired this, need never be bored waiting in line, though it does wreak havoc with my people-watching.

Excellent book of American poetry in a size easy to fit into a suitcase. I took it abroad with me when I served in the Peace Corps for a bit of home and to share with the locals, and gave a copy to a niece when she also served in the Peace Corps. Now that I am home, I take it with me whenever I travel, for small bits of reading

Popular and classic American poems. This is a great read for the younger generation to be introduced to a collection of well known poetry. It is also a great way for the older generation to refresh themselves with great works of art they enjoyed. I recommend this book for all ages.

Many of these poems you will enjoy reading over and over again. I have several of these types of poetry books and I have written a small poetry book myself (see the link). 101 Great American Poems is one of the best values of my collection.

Friday's Clouds: Poems of Fantasy, Love and War

The project undertaken is much larger than this small book can handle. It includes many of the old classic poems from which Americans know a line or two, so it is handy if you are studying trivia or if it just really, really bugs you when you can't remember what something is from. I guess that's my main use for the book. Much of it will seem rehashed if you are interested in poetry and looking for something new.
Perhaps you will enjoy this book more if you are new to poetry; my advice is to choose a poem you like, then read more by that author. On the other hand, for a dollar you can hardly go wrong adding this book to another order. You might buy a couple and hand them around just to raise awareness of poetry, which isn't read in schools as it was a hundred years ago.

This is a great collection of American poems. Far too many people are clueless on the wonderful American poems available.

But this should be complemented with the CD: "Poetry Classics To Funky Hits" which has set poetry to modern music and includes all below:

William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, E.E. Cummings, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Herrick, Elizabeth Browning, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Frost, Joachim Du Bellay, Sara Teasdale, Carl Sandburg, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edgar Allan Poe, Dante Alighieri, Robert Browning, Kahlil Gibran, Stephen Foster, Kabir, Ben Johnson, William Blake, Andrew Marvell, Lewis Carroll, Swami Vivekananda, Pierre Ronsard, John Le Gay Brereton, John Dryden, Henry Lawson, Robert Frost, Mary Ashley Townsend, Robert Burns, D. H. Lawrence, John Newton, Emily Dickinson, James Weldon Johnson, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, Thomas Moore, Robert Browning, Coventry Patmore and Jimmy Spice Curry.

Quotes from: Chopin, Louis Xviii, Che, Thomas Edison, Malcolm X, Gaius Julius Caesar, Winston Churchill, Jimmy Spice Curry, Elizabeth I, Anna Pavlova, Louise, Edith Wharton, Queen of Prussia, Beethoven, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, George Gordon & George Eliot, etc.)

Poems featured on album:
Sonnet 116; She Walks In Beauty; O Captain My Captain; I Carry Your Heart With Me; To Be Or Not To Be; If; Meeting At Midnight; A Prouder Man Than You; The Road Not Taken; How Much Do I Love Thee; A Red Red Rose; At The Window; Amazing Grace; You Left Me Sweet; Lift Every Voice And Sing; When Forty Winters; Sonnet To Liberty; The Poet; A Servant When He Reigneth; A Mother Like This; Hymn To Cupid; How Do I Love Thee; Love's Philosophy; Come In; Hymn To The Winds; I Lost A World; I Love You; Under The Harvest Moon; Night Thoughts; For Each Ecstatic Instant; Sympathy; A Dream Within A Dream; Over In The Meadow; Death Always Cruel; Meeting At Midnight; Greatest Quotes Ever - Pt 1; Love One Another; Beautiful Dreamer; There's A Moon In My Body; The Hour Glass; A Dream; To His Coy Mistress; To My Father Aka Great Unknown Men; My Fancy; Peace; To The Moon; Beauty And Hate; World's Greatest Proverbs ; Hidden Flame; Farewell; The Lost Leader; Did Not; Famous Last Words Before Dying; Dream Net; Ode To Dogs.