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