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Title: A Thousand and One English Poems
Post by: Joe Carillo on May 15, 2009, 10:59:11 PM
In case you’ve missed it, Jose Carillo’s English Forum provides a link to a treasure trove of great English poetry—the Bartleby.com free collection of thousands of English verse by hundreds of English poets and versifiers over the past many centuries. So if you’ve been wondering where to find the source of that memorable poetic line from Shakespeare or John Donne or Robert Frost or Emily Dickinson that you’ve heard from someone somewhere sometime, look no more. Just click to “Some Gems of the English Language” and you can immerse yourself right away in the most extensive collection of memorable English poetry ever.

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                                  IMAGE CREDIT: ARTWORK BY ROBERT PERKINS, FRANK BIDART, ELLEN WEST, 1975 © ROBERT PERKINS.  PHOTO BY LOUIE FASCIOLO


Among the poetry anthologies you will surely enjoy reading here are The Oxford Book of English Verse, The Oxford Book of Ballads, the American Anthology, and the Yale Book of American Verse. For full-blooded verse fanciers, there’s also the Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920, which puts together 120 works by 75 American poets of that bygone era.

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INSPIRING RELATED READING:
Robert Perkins' stunning artworks inspired by 20th century poetry legends (https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/robert-perkins-stunning-collages-inspired-by-20th-century-poetry-legends/)
What is art if not visual poetry? Emily Loring writes in CreativeBloom.com that “(i)t’s a connection that artist and filmmaker Robert Perkins has articulated more keenly than most, creating a body of work including paintings, collages and prints in collaboration with some of the most renowned poets of the past 50 years. (May 24, 2017)
Title: Re: A Thousand and One English Poems
Post by: D.woodriff on January 26, 2013, 07:16:46 PM
Thanks for the link. This will make me read all day. ;)