The Random House Treasury of Best-Loved Poems - Hardcover

Featuring classic poems of the English language that have proved perenially popular, this expanded second edition includes more modern classics by such contemporary poets as Gwendolyn Brooks, and includes the works of famous poets, including Robert Burns, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Edgar Allan Poe, Carl Sandburg, and more.

Featuring classic poems of the English language that have proved perennially popular, this expanded second edition includes two hundred poems. Special features included three handy indexes (author, first line, and title), and poems arranged under nine subjects: The World of Love and Romance; Nature and the Seasons; Story Poems and Ballads; Families and Children; Faith, Religion and Meditation; Wit and Humor; Americana; Country Life/City Life; and Portraits. Poets include Robert Burns, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Milton, Edgar Allan Poe, Carl Sandburg, William Shakespeare, and Walt Whitman, Gwendolyn Brooks and more! The Random House Treasury of Best-Loved Poems is a "must have" acquisition. -- Midwest Book Review