The Classic Hundred Poems

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By Wyatt, Sir Thomas & Ralegh, Sir Walter & Sidney, Sir Philip & Marlowe, Christopher & Shakespeare, William & Donne, John & Jonson, Ben & Herrick, Robert & Herbert, George & Carew, Thomas & Waller, William & Milton, John & Sir John Suckling & Lovelace, Richard F. & Marvell, Andrew & Harmon, William

Publishers Summary:
Imagine if "Billboard" compiled a list of top 100 poems chosen by the people themselves. That's the concept behind this audiobook. The range of poets, subjects, and forms--from Shakespeare to Frost, from love and death to crime and punishment, from sonnets to odes--makes this an entertaining, enlightening, and indispensable aural guide to the finest verse in the English language. Simultaneous release with Columbia University Press CD-ROM. April 1998 Publication date. 4 cassettes. .

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ISBN
978-1-56511-249-0
Publisher
Highbridge Audio


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Reviewed on September 1, 1998

Harmon (an extremely good poet in his own right) edited several similar collections, including The Top 500 Poems (1992), plus earlier versions of the current volume (with different selections) under the title The Top 100 Poems in English (1990). Poets represented here range from anonymous contemporaries of Shakespeare to The...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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