Library of World Poetry - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0517294591 ISBN 13: 9780517294598

Publisher: Random House Value Publishing, 1988

Edited and with an introduction by William Cullen Bryant, this 789 page book includes 1,450 poems selected by Bryant. Included are authors from Chaucer up through and including contemporaries of Bryant.

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Arranged by category from friendship and humor to religion and tragedy, this popular collection represents the work of familiar poets including Longfellow, Shelley, Browning, Shakespeare, Whittier, and hundreds more. Black and white woodcut engravings and facsimile manuscripts enhance the charm of this volume.

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Library of World Poetry is a must for every family, school and community library bookshelf. This is the comprehensive collection of the greatest poems in the English language written by our greatest poets. Keats, Longfellow, Coleridge, Shakespeare, Pope, and Browning are among the best of the poets are represented among the 1400 poems in this outstanding collection. -- Midwest Book Review

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