Negri-Great Short Poems

This outstanding anthology of short verse offers poetry lovers an impressive sampling of more than 150 masterpieces spanning over 400 years of English and American literary history. Although short in length (the longest are 24 lines most 16 lines or less) these poems are long on beauty power imagination and originality.Included are such memorable compositions as John Donne's Death Be Not Proud Shakespeare's When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes On His Blindness by John Milton William Blake's The Tyger Wordsworth's I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Byron's She Walks in Beauty Shelley's Ozymandias as well as works by Alfred Lord Tennyson Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson Gerard Manly Hopkins Amy Lowell William Butler Yeats Robert Frost Edna St. Vincent Millay Langston Hughes Dylan Thomas Paul Laurence Dunbar and many others.Attractive and inexpensive this compilation of carefully chosen verse contains many of the most loved most anthologized poems in the English language. Students teachers and any lover of great poetry will treasure this splendid collection. Includes The Road Not Taken Loveliest of Trees and Ozymandias.