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# The Giant Book of Poetry

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## Customer Reviews

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    More Contemporary Poems than Many Collections
  

*by T***W on Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2011*

Dilemma"I want to be famous so I can behumble aboutbeing famousWhat good is my humilitywhen I am stuckin this obscurity?"~ David BudbillIn my search for good poems I've often had to wade through the mediocre and mundane to get to the memorable. By reading an anthology I hope to find that someone else has done this job for me and has collected the best of the best. This is sometimes true but tastes vary. So it is with some trepidation that I enter the world of an editor who has selected what he or she feels are essential poems to be read at your leisure.This book contains more contemporary poems than many anthologies which seem to focus more on classic poems. This book has plenty of classic poems and quite a few finds that I haven't seen in other poetry books over the years.I enjoyed finding Elizabeth Bishop's funny poem about losing things and David Budbill's poem about wanting to be humble and famous. I was delighted to find poems by Billy Collins as I've reviewed quite a few of his books in the past. Reading this anthology also taught me something interesting about bats. You just never know what you are going to find in an anthology. Some of the great poems include:"Trees" by Joyce Kilmer"My Madonna" by Robert Service (pretty funny)"The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" by Edward Lear"All the World's a Stage" by William Shakespeare"To the Virgins" by Robert Herrick"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wortdsworth"An Argument" by Thomas Moore"Anabel Lee" by Edgar Allan PoeEven though this book is very long and takes quite a while to read when I got to 50% and found Billy Collins poems I did say "YAY!" Because mostly I was looking for contemporary poems. But alas there were very few and by 60% the poems were over.Well I am still happy I read this anthology because I found some funny poems. With so many poems to sort through this really does become quite an adventure. About 80% of the poems in this book were unknown to me. So this introduced me to quite a few new poets I may not have come across that easily.~The Rebecca Review

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    wonderful and simple poetry
  

*by Z***P on Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2013*

so, i just got this in the mail, and i was really psyched. ive looked over the poems, and i think that the two main things about the book is that the selection is arbitrary, and it is definitely more of an introsuctory book. the arbitrariness of it is both good and bad--the book is a wonderful hodge-podge of poems, and it's big. but--and this is a big but--you'll probably find that some of your favorites aren't in it. for instance, ginsberg. like, wtf. and james wright has three poems, but not his autumn one, which, to me, is freaking sacrosant.  and not a single sylvia plath poem, which made me rather bummed out. and only shakespeare's staple, easier sonnets.  but there is rudyard kipling's "if" and the love song of prufrock, and there  is some larkin (arundel tomb, talking in bed, and this be the verse--no aubade, though, hmm). has keats's grecian urn. has a lot of dickinson.  in short, i consider it a pretty good deal considering how it's not all from one poet or one time period. it's many, many poets, with a couple to a few usually short poems per each poet.

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    Great Anthology
  

*by J***L on Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2011*

I bought the Kindle version of this book and I was pleasantly surprised by what I found. The poetry does not lose any format in the e-book version and the various poems and authors are easily accessible. Also, the footnotes are easy to get to, which I had found in some e-books to be next to impossible to find.As for the anthology itself, I can only give the highest acclaim. The range and variety of poetry and poetic schools in this book is astounding. Rarely outside of a university textbook, can one go through so many different time periods and schools of poetry. Even then, this anthology exceeds many textbooks in that it is not limited to one school, time period, or nationality of poetry.If you are expecting academic influence in this book in the way of editors and long introductions to authors and schools of poetry, you will find little. What this anthology amounts to is one man putting together his favorite poems by his favorite poets. That being said Roetzheim still gives wonderful insight into each poem with footnotes including rhyme scheme, meter, themes of the poem, and definitions for the more obscure words.I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in poetry. It is a great collection for everyone from those new to poetry to college professors and everyone in between.

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