Reviews

101 Great American Poems by Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Emma Lazarus, Wallace Stevens, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, E.E. Cummings, Frances E.W. Harper, Robinson Jeffers, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Marianne Moore, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Anne Bradstreet, Andrew Carroll, Edna St. Vincent Millay, W.H. Auden, Claude McKay, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Archibald MacLeish, Sara Teasdale, Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, The American Poetry and Literacy Project, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Lee Masters, Stephen Crane, Paul Laurence Dunbar, T.S. Eliot

connie575's review

emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

rhonanc's review

5.0

I’m so glad my teacher recommended this book to me. The pure emotion every author pours into every line is unbelievable. Even if you are not interested in poetry, I would recommend this book.

taylormorgantm's review

reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.0

kennedyc's review

5.0

I’m so glad my teacher recommended this book to me. The pure emotion every author pours into every line is unbelievable. Even if you are not interested in poetry, I would recommend this book.

haleyd24's review

5.0

I really enjoyed this book. It was the perfect mixture of poems and poets that everyone interested in poetry should by familiar with. There were poems about everything and having so many in one place was very convenient and fun to read. I especially liked the Emerson poems as I was always more familiar with his prose or longer works. I'm not a huge Poe fan so i found his section to be a bit lengthy, the longest in the book, and I would've liked instead to see some more contemporary--maybe some Allen Ginsburg or a little more e.e. cummings, but I still enjoyed reading what this book had to offer. It was compact and easy to take and read anywhere.

iceangel9's review

5.0

This is a great introduction to poetry in general, and American poetry in particular. Highly recommended read!