A review by celeste57
100 Best-Loved Poems by Andrew Marvell, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., A.E. Housman, Robert Browning, John Milton, Wilfred Owen, Wallace Stevens, Robert Burns, W.B. Yeats, Henry Vaughan, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, E.E. Cummings, John Keats, Dylan Thomas, Thomas Gray, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Marianne Moore, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edwin Arlington Robinson, William Blake, Robert Frost, George Meredith, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Wyatt, Edmund Waller, Li Bai, Leigh Hunt, Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace, Edna St. Vincent Millay, W.H. Auden, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily John Donne, Christopher Marlowe, Walt Whitman, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Emily Dickinson, Rudyard Kipling, Carl Sandburg, Philip Smith, William Cullen Bryant, Thomas Nashe, Alfred Tennyson, Lord Byron

3.5

There are a lot of poems to love here, but there are a few that I think should not have been included and should have been subbed out for some that are more commonly accepted as universally beloved. Also, while this collection covers a wide swath of poets over the course of nearly 5 centuries, it is remarkably white and Anglocentric. Because of this, I believe the title is a bit of a misnomer. It would have been more appropriate to say that these were 100 of the best-loved poems of the Western canon. But all of that is personal opinion. There were many of my lifelong favorites in this collection, so the nostalgia factor alone, along with the very affordable price, made this a worthwhile acquirement.