The Classic Hundred Poems
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (700 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0000546UC |
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| Number of Pages | : | 302 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Then he put them in order and prefaced each one with concise, erudite, often humorous commentary. That's the concept behind The Classic Hundred, and it works brilliantly. William Harmon found the 100 most anthologized poems in English, based on the ninth edition of The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry—the most objective measurement of greatness available, representing consensus among the editors of some 400 anthologies. The range of poets, subjects, and forms—from Shakespeare to Frost, from love and death to crime and punishment, from sonnets to odes—makes this an entertaining, enlightening, and indispensable aural guide to the finest verse in the English language.. Imagine if Billboard compiled a list of the top 100 poems, chosen not by critics or professors but by the people themselves
"good poetry, very poor readers" according to A Customer. The idea of this collection is fine, but a disastrous decision was made to have the poetry read by American poets. One of the readers, Anthony Hecht, does a good job, but most read no better than your next door neighbor, and some are dreadful, as for example, Jorie Graham. My advice is : save your money for audio poetry read by actors -- there are. Its All There Barbara Horter A one stop shop for the poetry one wishes to go back to, time and time again! Wonderful collectionperfect company for any reader or poetry lover.. "Four Stars" according to Eleanor P. Monahan. First disc is defective.
This title is being issued simultaneously on cassette, CD, and CD-ROM (for $175). Poets represented here range from anonymous contemporaries of Shakespeare to Theodore Roethke and Randall Jarrell. Recommended for libraries with strong interest in older poetry, but all libraries will benefit from providng their useful selection.?Rochelle Ratner, formerly with "Soho Weekly News," New YorkCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. What is most useful, perhaps, are the biographies and commentary Harmon provides for each poem. From Library Journal Harmon (an extremely good poet in his own right) edited several similar collections, including The Top 500 Poems (1992), plus earlier versions of the current volume (with different selections) under the title The Top 100 Poems in English (1990). . Readers are also poets, such as Rita Dove, Philip Levine, Richard Howard, and the late James Merrill (though it might have been wiser to ha