Poetry

"A poem is never a put-up job—it begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness." Robert Frost

Updated April 8, 2024
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Don't read poetry : a book about how to read poems
Burt, Stephanie
Paper Book
"At once erudite and colloquial" (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetry  In Don't Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly...
811.009 Burt 2019
Poems and other writings
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Paper Book
No American writer of the nineteenth century was more universally enjoyed and admired than Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His works were extraordinary bestsellers for their era, achieving fame both here and abroad. Now, for the first time in over twenty-five years, The Library of America offers a full...
811.3 L86po
West : a translation
Rekdal, Paisley
Paper Book
National Book Award, 2023 Longlist  * "Elegiac and shot through with righteous anger, this essential collection demands a national...
811.6 Rekdal 2023
Complete poetry and collected prose
Whitman, Walt
Paper Book
This Library of America edition is the biggest and best edition of Walt Whitman's writings ever published. It includes all of his poetry and what he considered his complete prose. It is also the only collection that includes, in exactly the form in which it appeared in 1855, the first edition of...
811.3 W59cp
The poems
Yeats, W. B.
Paper Book
This is the first of a fourteen-volume edition of Yeats's work issued under the general editorship of Richard Finneran and George Mills Harper. A necessary read for Yeats devotees, Seamus Heaney writes, "All readers of Yeats will need this book; when they open it they will feel a surprise like that...
821.8 Y3p

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