100 essential American poems

100 essential American poems

Book - 2009

"This compilation of great American poetry contains some of the most fondly remembered works of all time. Representing the earliest days of the Nation through the golden age of the 19th century and up to the present day, this classic collection also includes the lyrics of canonical songs, from "The Star-Spangled Banner" to "This Land is Your Land." Each poet's work is preceded by an introduction."--From publisher description.

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Subjects
American poetry.
Published
New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2009.
Language
English
Other Authors
Leslie Pockell (-)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
xv, 288 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9780312369804
  • The prologue / by Anne Bradstreet
  • The author to her book / by Anne Bradstreet
  • Before the birth of one of her children / by Anne Bradstreet
  • To my dear and loving husband / by Anne Bradstreet
  • Amazing grace / by John Newton
  • Yankee doodle dandy / (traditional)
  • The star-spangled banner / by Francis Scott Key
  • A visit from St. Nicholas / by Clement Clarke Moore
  • Thanatopsis / by William Cullen Bryant
  • Concord hymn / by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Paul Revere's ride / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • The village blacksmith / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • A psalm of life / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Barbara Frietchie / by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Snow-bound / by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Old Ironsides / by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • The chambered nautilus / by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • The deacon's masterpiece, or the wonderful "one-hoss shay" / by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • The raven / by Edgar Allan Poe
  • To Helen / by Edgar Allan Poe
  • The bells / by Edgar Allan Poe
  • What is so rare as a day in June from "The vision of Sir Launfal" / by James Russell Lowell
  • Billy in the Darbies / by Herman Melville
  • What is the grass from Leaves of grass / by Walt Whitman
  • Out of the cradle endlessly rocking / by Walt Whitman
  • Crossing Brooklyn Ferry / by Walt Whitman
  • A noiseless patient spider / by Walt Whitman
  • I hear America singing / by Walt Whitman
  • When I heard the learn'd astronomer / by Walt Whitman
  • When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / by Walt Whitman
  • Battle-hymn of the republic / by Julia Ward Howe
  • Do down, Moses / (traditional)
  • Follow the drinking gourd / (tradtional)
  • Jeanie with the light brown hair / by Stephen C. Foster
  • Old folks at home / by Stephen C. Foster
  • Wild nights!-- wild nights! / by Emily Dickinson
  • There is no frigate like a book / by Emily Dickinson
  • "Hope" is the thing with feathers / by Emily Dickinson
  • I taste a liquor never brewed / y Emily Dickinson
  • I'm nobody! who are you? / by Emily Dickinson
  • Because I could not stop for Death / by Emily Dickinson
  • The face on the barroom floor / by Hugh Antoine D'Arcy
  • Git along, little dogies / (traditional)
  • Sioux ghost dance / (translated by James Mooney)
  • The new Colossus / by Emma Lazarus
  • Little boy blue / by Eugene Feld
  • Casey at the bat / by Ernest Thayer
  • Richard Cory / by Edwin Arlington Robinson
  • Anne Rutledge from Spoon River anthology / by Edgar Lee Masters
  • A man said to the universe / by Stephen Crane
  • In the desert (from The black riders and other lives) / by Stephen Crane
  • The cremation of Sam McGee / by Robert W. Service
  • The shooting of Dan McGrew / by Robert W. Service
  • Lfit every voice and sing / by James Weldon Johnson
  • We wear the mask / by Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • The Congo / by Vachel Lindsay
  • A decade / by Amy Lowell
  • The gift outright / by Robert Frost
  • The road not taken / by Robert Frost
  • Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / by Robert Frost
  • Mending wall / by Robert Frost
  • Death of the hired man / by Robert Frost
  • Chicago / by Carl Sandburg
  • Fog / by Carl Sandburg
  • Grass / by Carl Sandburg
  • The emperor of ice cream / by Wallace Stevens
  • Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / by Wallace Stevens
  • Home / by Edgar Guest
  • The red wheelbarrow / by William Carlos Williams
  • This is just to say / by William Carlos Williams
  • Ancient music / by Ezra Pound
  • Trees / by Joyce Kilmer
  • Poetry / by Marianne Moore
  • The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / by Thomas Stearns Eliot
  • The waste land / by Thomas Stearns Eliot
  • First fig / by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • I, being born a woman and distressed / by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Spring / by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Recuerdo / by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Second fig / by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Résumé / by Dorothy Parker
  • Buffalo Bill's / by E.E. Cummings
  • In just- / by E.E. Cummings
  • Poem: to Brooklyn Bridge / by Hart Crane
  • Dream deferred / by Langston Hughes
  • Mother to son / by Langston Hughes
  • Song of the open road / by Ogden Nash
  • Reflections on ice-breaking / by Ogden Nash
  • Cross roads blues / by Robert Johnson
  • Stagger Lee / (traditional)
  • One art / by Elizabeth Bishop
  • This land is your land / by Woody Guthrie
  • The death of the ball turret gunner / by Randall Jarrell
  • For the union dead / by Robert Lowell
  • We real cool / by Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Sound off marching cadence count / dereived from the Duckworth Chant, orignially attributed to Pvt. Willie Duckworth
  • The day Lady died / by Frank O'Hara
  • A supermarket in California / by Allen Ginsburg
  • Daddy / by Sylvia Plath
  • Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes / by Billy Collins.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

In this poetry collection, Pockell (100 Poems to Lift Your Spirits), associate publisher at Time Warner Books Group, focuses on poems that have fueled the American identity. Covering 400 years, the poems range from classic, to familiar (and for nostalgics, poems most likely memorized and recited), to those that touch upon the seminal events in America's history. The collection aims to present an evolving American "voice" while following the country's growth in human rights, feminism and diversity. A short author bio prefaces each selection, beginning with the 17th century's Anne Bradstreet, who celebrates being female in a harsh environment. Well known names like Herman Melville, Emily Dickenson, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath are represented by their seminal works, and the beauty of this collection is the coming together of the best loved poems of the best loved American poets. A work that serves as reference, comfort, and a reminder poetry's significance in the everyday experience of American life, this is a volume worthy of any shelf. (Apr.) Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.

Review by School Library Journal Review

Adult/High School-From the colonial period to the present, the focus in this winning collection is on works that are "essential" to a full appreciation of our national culture and character. Pockell's aim is to present canonical verse, with an eye toward multi-ethnic, multicultural, and multigenerational selection. In this he is mostly successful. Readers will find the golden nuggets of such giants as Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost, and works from what some might consider a second tier of poets: John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Lee Masters, and Lowell (three Lowells, actually). And then there are the entries that make this book stand apart from similar collections: poems and lyrics with little or no literary merit. Among these are "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Go Down Moses," "Follow the Drinking Gourd," "Casey at the Bat," Robert Johnson's "Cross Roads Blues," and Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." Some welcome surprises are Eugene Field's "Little Boy Blue," Amy Lowell's "A Decade," and "Sound off Marching Cadence Count." There are also some questionable selections: "Amazing Grace" by John Newton (he was English); two poems by Robert W. Service (an Englishman who wrote about the Yukon); and, most notably, T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Also, one could take exception to the inclusion of four poems by Anne Bradstreet but none by Phillis Wheatley. These criticisms aside, this volume deserves a place in most poetry collections.-Robert Saunderson, formerly at Berkeley Public Library, CA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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