Pocket Posh 100 Classic Poems

by Jennifer Fox

Discover how a little poetry can lift your spirits and inspire your life, with selections from Yeats, Byron, Poe, Dickinson, and other greats.Including William Blake’s “The Tyger,” Emily Dickinson’s “Hope Is the Thing with Feathers,” William Wordsworth’s “The World Is Too Much with Us,” John Keats’s “A Thing of Beauty” (from “Endymion”), and ninety-six more, this collection of classic poems allows you to spend a few moments each day with timeless verses.Escape the noise and experience a taste of Walt Whitman, Alfred Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Butler Yeats, Emily Bronte, Amy Lowell, Christina Rossetti, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, Sara Teasdale, Lord Byron, and many more.

Genres: Poetry

128 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2012

Reviews

[Sarah Spence · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this edition of poetry to be informative in the different styles of various poets, but I feel like there wasn't enough diversity. There are 100 poems, but only 28 authors. Certain poets, such as Yeats and Dickinson, had 10 poems in this book. Sylvia Plath's work wasn't shown once. I felt, as a fairly uninformed reader of poetry, like this book could have been better as a poetry sampler of 100 different poets. Mixed-author poetry books are difficult to read as they are, but having repeated authors can stigmatize the reading if their poetry is repetitive.

[Robby Hunter · Rating 5 out of 5]

this has some spectacular poems in it. not as much variety as there could be, but what the hell, it's mostly Yeats and Dickinson because Yeats and Dickinson are the bomb. super pretty little book, wonderfully portable, just great to leave in my backpack and pull out whenever.