Best Poetry Anthologies Books
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1. Dr. Seuss's Beginner Book Collection (Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish, Green Eggs and Ham, Hop on Pop, Fox in Socks)
Author: by Dr. Seuss
English
360 pages
0375851569
Shel Silverstein, the New York Times bestselling author of The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, has created a poetry collection that is outrageously funny and deeply profound.Come in … For where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein’s world begins.
You’ll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist.
Shel Silverstein’s masterful collection of poems and drawings stretches the bounds of imagination and will be cherished by readers of all ages. This is a collection that belongs on everyone’s bookshelf. Makes a great gift for special occasions such as holidays, birthdays, and graduation.
And don’t miss Runny Babbit Returns, the new book by Shel Silverstein!
3. Dr. Seuss's Second Beginner Book Collection (Beginner Books(R))
Author: by Dr. Seuss
0375871284
English
288 pages
Want to give a gift that will make a lasting impression? This boxed set of of five beloved Beginner Books by Dr. SeussThe Cat in the Hat Comes Back, Dr. Seuss’s ABC, Oh Say Can You Say?, Oh the Thinks You Can Think!, and I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
Is perfect for new parents, birthday celebrations, and happy occasions of all kinds. Ideal for reading aloud or reading alone, it will be cherished by young and old alike. Begin a child on the adventure of a lifetimewith Beginner Books by Dr. Seuss!
And if you want to make a REALLY BIG impression, consider gifting this along with a copy of our first boxed set of Beginner Books, Dr. Seuss’s Beginner Book Collection. The two sets combined include all ten Beginner Books by Dr. Seuss!
4. The Sneetches and Other Stories
Author: by Dr. Seuss
English
72 pages
0394800893
Kids will love this noise-filled Bright and Early Book classic from the one and only Dr. Seuss! Mr. Brown is a sound-making wonder! He can hoo hoo like an owl and buzz buzz like a bee. It is so much fun to make noises that you hear every day, like moo and ticktock.
But stranger sounds are fun to make, too … Like the pip of a goldfish kiss and the grum grum of a hippo chewing gum. Encouraging imaginative play while learning to read, Mr. Brown Can Moo!Can You? Will keep kids laughing (when they’re not ticktocking).
Combining brief and funny stories, easy words, catchy rhythm, and lively illustrations, Bright and Early Books are an ideal way to introduce the joys of reading to children.
6. 150 Most Famous Poems: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman and many more
Author: by Poetry House
Vervante (August 1, 2020)
English
350 pages
This is an updated and revised version (July 2021). This great English Poetry Anthology contains 150 of the Most Famous Poems of the last centuries. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these famous poems remain Masterpieces of English Literature and continue to inspire and influence people all over the world.
This poetry compilation comes in the size of 8×10 inches (20.32 x 25. 4 cm) and is perfect as a gift for poetry lovers, literature students and teachers or to complete your own book collection. The following 35 poems are an excerpt of the book’s content:My Last Duchess by Robert BrowningThanatopsis by William Cullen BryantA Red, Red Rose by Robert BurnsShe Walks In Beauty by George Gordon ByronKubla Khan by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeI carry your heart with me by E.E.
CummingsBecause I could not stop for Death by Emily DickinsonHope is the thing with feathers by Emily DickinsonHoly Sonnet: 10 by John DonneThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. EliotThe Road Not Taken by Robert FrostStopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening by Robert FrostA friend’s greeting by Edgar Albert GuestElegy Written In A Country Churchyard by Thomas GrayAbou Ben Adhem by James Henry Leigh HuntOde On A Grecian Urn by John KeatsIf by Rudyard KiplingRecessional by Rudyard KiplingSonnet: 19.
7. When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
Author: by LeAnne Howe
English
496 pages
0393356809
Selected as one of Oprah Winfrey’s “Books That Help Me Through” United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries.
Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Prizewinner N. Scott Momaday, the book contains powerful introductions from contributing editors who represent the five geographically organized sections. Each section begins with a poem from traditional oral literatures and closes with emerging poets, ranging from Eleazar, a seventeenth-century Native student at Harvard, to Jake Skeets, a young Din poet born in 1991, and including renowned writers such as Luci Tapahanso, Natalie Diaz, Layli Long Soldier, and Ray Young Bear.
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through offers the extraordinary sweep of Native literature, without which no study of American poetry is complete.
8. My Many Colored Days
Author: by Dr. Seuss
English
32 pages
0679875972
Accompanying a manuscript Dr. Seuss wrote in 1973, was a letter outlining his hopes of finding “a great color artist who will not be dominated by me.” The late Dr. Seuss saw his original text about feelings and moods as part of the “first book ever to be based on beautiful illustrations and sensational color.” The quest for an artist finally endedafter the manuscript languished for more than two decadesat the paint brushes of husband-and-wife team Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher whose stunning, expressive paintings reveal such striking images as a bright red horse kicking its heels, a cool and quiet green fish, a sad and lonely purple dinosaur, and an angrily howling black wolf.
Using a spectrum of vibrant colors and a menagerie of animals, this unique book does for the range of human moods and emotions what Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Does for the human life cycle. Here is a wonderful way for parents to talk with children about their feelings.
With Johnson and Fancher’s atmospheric, large-scale paintings bursting off the pages, Dr. Seuss’s vision is brought to life. This rare and beautiful book is bound to appeal to both the innocent young and the most sophisticated seniors.
9. Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose (Classic Seuss)
Author: by Dr. Seuss
0394800869
English
48 pages
Join one of Dr. Seuss’s most giving characters in the classic picture book Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose. Poor Thidwick’s generosity proves the adage that no good deed goes unpunished, and soon everyone, from a tiny Bingle Bug to a huge bear, is taking advantage of our antlered hero.
With Seuss’s rhyming text and endearing illustrations, this beloved story about a kindhearted moose and the bullies that make a home on his horns is an ideal way to introduce children to the invaluable concept of self-respect.
10. Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems
Author: by Phyllis Cole-Dai
English
252 pages
0998258830
Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems is a collection of poetry that provides a refuge of quiet clarity very much needed in today’s restless, chaotic world. Every reader will find favorites to share and to return to, again and again.
The diverse group of contributing poets includes contemporary favorites such as Wendell Berry, Joy Harjo, Jane Hirshfield, Li-Young Lee, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Derek Walcott, as well as poets of the past such as Hafiz, Pablo Neruda, Li Po, and Rumi.
Readers of the poems in this book will begin to find themselves becoming less stressed, more balanced, and more fully present in the world.
11. The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms
Author: by Eavan Boland
English
400 pages
0393321789
“Concise, learned, revisionary… Should enrich the passionate conversation about poetic forms for years to come.” Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry Two of our foremost poets provide here a lucid, straightforward primer that “looks squarely at some of the headaches and mysteries of poetic form”: a book for readers who have always felt that an understanding of form (sonnet, ballad, villanelle, sestina, among others) would enhance their appreciation of poetry.
Tracing “the exuberant history of forms,” they devote one chapter to each form, offering explanation, close reading, and a rich selection of examplars that amply demonstrate the power and possibility of that form.
12. Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West (Compass)
Author: by Various
Penguin Books
English
400 pages
Sacred poetry from twelve mystics and saints, rendered brilliantly by Daniel Ladinsky, beloved interpreter of verses by the fourteenth-century Persian poet HafizOne of 6 Books Oprah Loves to Give as Gifts During the HolidaysAll kinds of beautiful poetry. Hoda KotbIn this luminous collection, Daniel Ladinskybest known for his bestselling interpretations of the great Sufi poet Hafizbrings together the timeless work of twelve of the world’s finest spiritual writers, six from the East and six from the West.
Once again, Ladinsky reveals his talent for creating profound and playful renditions of classic poems for a modern audience. Rumi’s joyous, ecstatic love poems; St. Francis’s loving observations of nature through the eyes of Catholicism; Kabir’s wild, freeing humor that synthesizes Hindu, Muslim, and Christian beliefs; St. Teresa’s sensual verse; and the mystical, healing words of Sufi poet Hafizthese along with inspiring works by Rabia, Meister Eckhart, St. Thomas Aquinas, Mira, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and Tukaram are all love poems by God from writers considered conduits of the divine.
13. 101 Famous Poems
Author: by Roy J. Cook
English
185 pages
0071419306
Fully indexed by title, author, and first line, this much-loved collection, in print since 1916, is a wide-ranging collection of the best-known English language poets, from William Shakespeare Robert Frost, from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Edna St. Vincent Millay.
14. Blooming: Poems on Love, Self-Discovery, and Femininity (To the Moon and Back)
Author: by Alexandra Vasiliu
English
177 pages
1799121372
Seed hope in your heart, heal your wounds and bloom againBlooming’ is an empowering poetry collection that takes you on a journey of love, healing, self-discovery, inner strength, and personal transformation. A journey through powerful feelings that grow from seeds and change into flowers.
A journey about you and your beautiful heart. From the very first poem to the last one, you will feel inspired to find your way to become a woman blossoming in love. Dive into these uplifting poems and allow yourself to heal, grow roots in love, and bloom again.
The paperback contains black-and-white drawings.
15. African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (LOA #333): A Library of America Anthology (The Library of America)
Author: by Kevin Young
English
1170 pages
1598536664
A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the presentAcross a turbulent history, from such vital centers as Harlem, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and the Bay Area, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them.
Capturing the power and beauty of this diverse tradition in a single indispensable volume, African American Poetry reveals as never before its centrality and its challenge to American poetry and culture. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest.
The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people like Phillis Wheatley and George Moses Horton and activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper voice their passionate resistance to slavery. Young’s fresh, revelatory presentation of the Harlem Renaissance reexamines the achievements of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen alongside works by lesser-known poets such as Gwendolyn B.Bennett and Mae V.Cowdery.
16. 100 Best-Loved Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Author: by Philip Smith
Dover Publications
English
112 pages
Here are some of the most-loved poems in the English language, chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these splendid poems remain evergreen in their capacity to engage our minds and refresh our spirits.
Among them are Marlowe: “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”; Shakespeare: “Sonnet XVIII” (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”); Donne: “Holy Sonnet X” (“Death, be not proud”); Marvell: “To His Coy Mistress”; Wordsworth: “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”; Shelley: “Ode to the West Wind”; Longfellow: “The Children’s Hour”; Poe: “The Raven”; Tennyson: “The Charge of the Light Brigade”; Whitman: “O Captain!
My Captain!”; Dickinson: “This Is My Letter to the World”; Yeats: “When You Are Old”; Frost: “The Road Not Taken”; Millay: “First Fig.”Works by many other poets Milton, Blake, Burns, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Emerson, the Brownings, Hardy, Housman, Kipling, Pound, and Auden among them are included in this treasury, a perfect companion for quiet moments of reflection.
