![]() ![]() Included are poems by John Donne, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Langston Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Seamus Heaney, Allen Ginsberg, and Louise Glück, to name a few. Many of these 200 poems are accompanied by comments from readers of various ages, regions, and backgrounds who participated in the Favorite Poem Project. ![]() ![]() This anthology concentrates on the actual pleasures of reading poems: hearing the poem in your voice, bringing it to other people, musing about it, taking excitement or comfort from it, wandering with it or-as in the Keats letter quoted in the Introduction-having it as a starting post. It is also meant to be a fresh, valuable collection for readers already devoted to the art. Poems to Read is a welcoming avenue into poetry for readers new to poetry, including high school and college students. A unique anthology by the editors of the bestseller Americans' Favorite Poems. ![]()
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