A review by amandam
Poetry: A Pocket Anthology by Andrew Marvell, Robert Browning, John Milton, Robert Burns, George Herbert, George Gordon, Robert Southwell, Alexander Pope, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Keats, Thomas Campion, Thomas Gray, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Blake, Edmund Spenser, William Wordsworth, R.S. Gwynn, Thomas Wyatt, Edmund Waller, Anne Bradstreet, John Donne, Robert Herrick, John Dryden, Richard Lovelace, Mary Wroth, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Edgar Allan Poe, Wanda Campbell, Walt Whitman, Michael Drayton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Philip Sidney, Jonathan Swift, Alfred Tennyson, Lord Byron

4.0

This was a great poetry anthology to use at the beginning of my Poetry: Form and Meaning class. We used the prose (though supplemented it for some other perspectives on reading and writing poetry) a great deal, and it was nice to have a wide selection of poems to choose from for each class meeting. The variety is good, and we were able to also be spontaneous and choose poems for quick reading circles and projects. When we approached or sought out more contemporary poets, newer poets students might feel a stronger connection to, and poets of more diverse backgrounds, we needed to move outside the book.