One Hundred and One Famous Poems (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

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This treasury of beloved poems collects all your favorite poets in one book. Whether youre looking for a love poem or something to mend a broken heart, perhaps youre feeling patriotic or struggling to understand the nature of man, the timeless words of Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, John Milton, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti are at your fingertips. From the Romantic poets like Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats to the Transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson, this comprehensive collection contains examples of the many periods of writing from England to Scotland and on to the United States.Included are such favorites as:Walt Whitmans O Captain! My Captain!Eugene Fields Little Boy BluePercy Bysshe Shelleys To a SkylarkJoyce Kilmers TreesRobert Burns Letter to a Young FriendHenry Wadsworth Longfellows Paul Reveres RideEdgar Allan Poes The RavenThree indices let you find your favorite poems by title, author, and first line.