A review by vegancleopatra
Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams

2.0

I enjoy dabbling in poetry so this anthology of the "immortal poems" seemed appropriate for dabbling. However, I felt numerous poets were shortchanged in the book while others were far too represented (like poets I have never even heard of and it seems that was for good reason!). Elizabeth Barrett Browning only had ONE poem in the entire book, ONE. Ridiculous. There were quite a number of poems that I would never consider important to English language poetry nonetheless any good. There were also far too many religious themed poems-granted there would be many throughout the years but far too many represented in one anthology. I did mark quite a few poems throughout my reading and overall my time was not wasted.