I offered this collection as a choice when we were reading Walt Whitman's poems. Although the boys did not choose to read this one, I wanted to record it so I can return to it when studying other poets. This collection contains samplings of poems from many famous poets. Reading it aloud with your children would expose them to a wide variety of poets. Poets included are: Shakespeare, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Clare, John Keats, Thomas Hood, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Edward Lear, Robert Browning, Emily Bronte, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Banjo Paterson, Rudyard Kipling, William Butler Yeats, Henry Lawson, Hilaire Belloc, Walter de la Mare, Robert Frost, Edward Thomas, Carl Sandburg, John Masefield, Siegfried Sassoon, T.S. Eliot, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Judith Wright.
I had not heard of some of the poets!
*Highly recommend.
-Borrowed from the library.
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