Treasury of Great Poems Author:Louis Untermeyer (Editor) A great treasury of the human spirit: Here is a rich panorama of verse from the golden dawn of English poetry to the great American poets of our own day. You will find Chaucer, the storyteller, the sonnets of Shakespeare, the glowing beauty of Keats and Shelley, the complete "Rubaiyat," "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," the ... more »homespun strength of Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost, the bitter but precise phrases of T.S. Eliot, the fiery imagery of Dylan Thomas.
This anthology is more than a rich and abundant selection of verse. It is a unique guide to the whole development of poetry in the English language. Interwoven throughout the book are hundreds of exciting stories of the lives and times of the poets, and revealing interpretations of their imperishable works.« less