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ilybinaya's review
3.0
it’s more of a collection of poetry based on the period, country, instead of one which embraces the best of the best. the problem with some of the poems would be translation, that it’d easily fall short because of being not the best translation it could have been, and it is very personally determined. good one to start as an introduction to poetry and one to fish some random good poems in, but the preference would be the individual collection which these poets have for themselves respectively.
oxnard_montalvo's review
5.0
This was a marvellous book. Hefty and complex. Borrowed from Central Library but would love to buy it some day. An excellent selection of poems from antiquity to modern times, witty, hypnotic and beautiful. Something to savour.
tapsandtomes's review
1.0
I can't take this seriously when there are poems about Clairol and Gucci under Homer & Virgil.
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