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10 best books like Collected Lyrics (Edna St. Vincent Millay): The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms, Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath, No More Masks: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets, Five Decades: Poems 1925-1970, The Oxford Book of American Poetry, The Portable Blake, Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001, Early Poems, A Book of Women Poets: From Antiquity to Now, Selected Poetry and Prose

The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms
AuthorRon Padgett
ISBN0915924609
I own at least one book of poetic forms and have used several. I've also looked up individual forms online. This handbook edited by Ron Padgett is the best I've seen. I understand there can be problems getting permissions to reprint poems. This publisher worked that out. There is nothing more frustrating...
Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath
AuthorElise Paschen
ISBN1570717206
Poetry Speaks features the work of the most influential writers in modern poetry-written and performed-from 1892 to 1997. This book combines their most significant poems in print with the authors themselves reading their poetry on audio CD. Poets range from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman,...
No More Masks: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets
AuthorFlorence Howe
ISBN0060965177
A revised and expanded edition of the classic groundbreaking anthology of 20th-century American women's poetry, representing more than 100 poets from Amy Lowell to Anne Sexton to Rita Dove."This is a fabulous, heavy event: an updated edition of the pioneering and beautiful anthology "No More Masks!,...
Five Decades: Poems 1925-1970
AuthorPablo Neruda
ISBN0802130356
This bilingual volume is the definitive collection of the poetry of Pablo Neruda, the 1971 Nobel Prize winner, and one of the most profoundly influential poets of the twentieth century. His love poems are earthy and transcendent, and his political poems are the work of a man as incisive, impassioned,...
The Oxford Book of American Poetry
AuthorDavid Lehman
Here is the eagerly awaited new edition of The Oxford Book of American Poetry brought completely up to date and dramatically expanded by poet David Lehman. It is a rich, capacious volume, featuring the work of more than 200 poets-almost three times as many as the 1976 edition. With a succinct and often...
The Portable Blake
AuthorWilliam Blake
ISBN0140150269
This has additions. Better collection than other editions on my shelf.

The wild winds weep,
And the night is a-cold;
Come hither, Sleep,
And my griefs enfold! . . .
But lo! the morning peeps
Over the eastern steeps,
And the rustling beds of dawn
The earth do scorn....
Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
AuthorW.G. Sebald
ISBN1400068908
A publishing landmark—the first major collection of poems by one of the late twentieth century’s literary masters
 
German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative author of Austerlitz, the prose classic of World War II culpability and conscience that The Guardian called “a...
Early Poems
AuthorRobert Frost
I went through a rather fanatical Robert Frost phase when I was a college freshman. That year, I devoured four of Frost's first five published collections of poetry: A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval, and West-Running Brook.

I was seventeen. I had just moved from a rather nondescript...
A Book of Women Poets: From Antiquity to Now
AuthorAliki Barnstone
ISBN0805209972
A monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now is an invaluable collection. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This revised edition includes a newly expanded section of...
Selected Poetry and Prose
AuthorPercy Bysshe Shelley
Shelley's short, prolific life produced some of the most memorable and well-known lyrics of the Romantic period. But he was also the most radical writer in the English literary tradition of his day, a fiery political visionary committed to social change and progress. The generous selection in this...
Flame and Shadow
AuthorSara Teasdale
ISBN1406570842
Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) was an American lyrical poet. Teasdale's major themes were love, nature's beauty, and death, and her poems were much loved during the early 20th century. She won the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America for her volume, Love Songs. Her style and lyricism are well illustrated...
Americans' Favorite Poems: The Favorite Poem Project Anthology
AuthorRobert Pinsky
ISBN0393048209
The selections in this anthology were chosen form the personal letters of thousands of Americans who responded to Robert Pinsky's invitation to write to him about their favorite poems. Some poems are memories treasured in the mind since childhood; some crystallize the passion of love or recall the...
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
AuthorDaniel Mark Epstein
ISBN0805071814
This is the story of a rare sort of American genius, who grew up in grinding poverty in Camden, Maine. Nothing could save the sensitive child but her talent for words, music, and drama, and an inexorable desire to be loved. When she was twenty, her poetry would make her famous; at thirty she would be loved...
The Darkness Around Us is Deep: Selected Poems
AuthorWilliam Stafford
ISBN0060969164

Robert Bly edited and introduced this short selection of William Stafford’s poems. It is much needed, since Stafford is an extremely prolific poet, and it is good to have an excellent judge like Bly to look through all the good stuff and choose the most characteristic and best. (It was Stafford’s...
Listen to the Warm
AuthorRod McKuen
ISBN0394403789
I decided to read one of my old books of poetry today called “Listen to the Warm” by Rod McKuen. Rod McKuen was one of my favorite poets back in the 1960s. He was born in a nearby city, Oakland, California. He worked in many types of jobs from newspaper man to laborer until he served in the Army who put him...
The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry, 1980-1990
AuthorDorothy Allison
ISBN0932379982
The Women Who Hate Me was first published as a chapbook in 1983 when Dorothy was 34; it was expanded and published in the form being reviewed here in 1991. Her short story collection Trash was first published in 1988 and an expanded version was published in 2002. She received mainstream recognition in...
Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems
AuthorAlfred Tennyson
ISBN0451524705
With regal melancholy and a superb sense of craft, Tennyson's poems evoke Past and Present - the Isle of the Lotos-Eaters, heraldic Camelot, his own twilit English gardens - seeking to reconcile the Victorian zeal for public progress with private despair. Using his own eloquence or masks of mythic...
The Painted Bed: Poems
AuthorDonald Hall
ISBN0618340750
Donald Hall's fourteenth collection opens with an epigraph from the Urdu poet Faiz: "The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved." In that poetic tradition, as in THE PAINTED BED, the beloved might be a person or something else - life itself, or the disappearing countryside. Hall's new poems...
African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927
AuthorJoan R. Sherman
ISBN0486296040
Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from the religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to 20th-century work of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. Other contributors include James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, many others. Indispensable for students of the...
Collected Poems and Translations
AuthorRalph Waldo Emerson
ISBN0940450283
Ralph Waldo Emerson's brillance as a prose writer has too long overshadowed his remarkable gifts as a poet. Collected Poems and Translations
gathers both published and unpublished work - poems left in manuscript at his death and hitherto available only in drastically edited or specialized scholarly...
The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle
AuthorMadeleine L'Engle
ISBN0877880867
Praise for The Ordering of Love
By Madeleine L’Engle

“In a brilliant marriage of myth and manner, histories sacred and profane, prayers of petition and of praise, these poems both articulate and illumine the trouble in the gap in which we live–the gap between human affections...
A Poet to His Beloved: The Early Love Poems of W.B. Yeats
AuthorW.B. Yeats
ISBN0312619863
As a young man, William Butler Yeats was deeply affected by the idea of romantic love, or, as he called it, "the old high way of love." Characteristically, much of his early poetry that which was written prior to 1910, is poetry that belongs to courtship.

When Yeats was twenty-three years old,...
Enough Rope
AuthorDorothy Parker
Keep me from the old distress;
Let me, for our happiness,
Be the one to love the less.
– Dorothy Parker, "Somebody’s song"
It takes a certain kind of humor, singularity and incurable ennui to be able to enjoy this poetry collection written by a woman whose words had the ability to...
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