A review by michaelion
One Hundred and One Famous Poems by John James Ingalls, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Francis William Bourdillon, Henry Van Dyke, Thomas Buchanan Read, John Milton, Thomas Hood, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Robert Burns, Sam Walter Foss, Henry Holcomb Bennett, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Maltbie Davenport Babcock, Edward Lear, Thomas Gray, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Alan Seeger, John McCrae, Eugene Field, James Whitcomb Riley, Frank L. Stanton, Walter Scott, Edmund Vance Cooke, William Wordsworth, Alice Gary, John Greenleaf Whittier, Leigh Hunt, William Shakespeare, Joaquin Miller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward R. Sill, William Ernest Henley, James Russell Lowell, Phillips Brooks, Walt Whitman, Ellen H. Gates, William Herbert Carruth, Roy Jay Cook, Francis Miles Finch, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Emily Dickinson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Alexander Anderson, Rudyard Kipling, Sidney Lanier, John Burroughs, William Cullen Bryant, Alfred Tennyson, Lord Byron

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  • Diverse cast of characters? No

2.25

First I must admit I didn't read all the poems. I found this book in a secondhand store with a note from someone written in 1961, given as a gift, and I thought it'd be nice to see what poems were considered famous a hundred years ago. As expected, maybe 90% of the poems are by men, and call me a man hating lesbian if you want but I just don't think men have anything interesting or note worthy to say. If the poem wasn't about war, it was about the sea, or death, or the love of their country. Not even the nature of the country, like love of fellow countrymen and patriotism. These things don't appeal to me but I don't like to DNF books so I stuck it through, skipping ones that were too long or I got the gidst of it by skimming. I recgonized a few of the poems, maybe 5 to 10 total, so that was interesting.
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