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Summary: I can't fathom why this is out of print
Review: This book is a wonderful resource for the casual reader, or memorizer, of lyric poetry. By design, it's a "greatest hits" anthology, so you're not going to find any surprises here. But it's great to have "To His Coy Mistress," "Prufrock," "Fern Hill," "At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners," and 96 more poems worth memorizing at your fingertips. The layout deserves special praise. Every poem gets a one- or two-page display to itself, with lots of white space around the poem -- an attractive display that's restful on the eye, and somehow very modern-looking. Every poem also gets an informative and sometimes quirky introductory paragraph.
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Summary: I can't fathom why this is out of print
Review: This book is a wonderful resource for the casual reader, or memorizer, of lyric poetry. By design, it's a "greatest hits" anthology, so you're not going to find any surprises here. But it's great to have "To His Coy Mistress," "Prufrock," "Fern Hill," "At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners," and 96 more poems worth memorizing at your fingertips. The layout deserves special praise. Every poem gets a one- or two-page display to itself, with lots of white space around the poem -- an attractive display that's restful on the eye, and somehow very modern-looking. Every poem also gets an informative and sometimes quirky introductory paragraph.
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