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Poetry Anthologies

Almost any collection of poems could be classified as an anthology. For our purposes, poetry anthologies are collections of poetry by multiple authors. Single author poetry collections can be found in our general poetry section.

Sometimes the best way to find a needle is by going straight to the haystack. That is, if you don't know which needle you're looking for. Poetry anthologies are full of familiar and undiscovered goodies, and if you don't mind shuffling around in some straw for awhile you're sure to find at least one or two.

Not that too many no-good poems find their way into anthologies (hardly any do, in fact), but not every poet or poem will strike every reader the same way. Poetry-lovers often talk about encountering a poem, not liking it, then reading it again months or years later and loving it. How can that kind of magic happen if you don't have the right book of potions?

Poetry anthologies are commonly grouped by place and period, for instance, "poems published in England during the Romantic era." Others follow themes like "love poems" or sonnets, or offer poems for children, or try to cover the breadth and length of American or British poetry (a daunting task by any standard).

You'll often find information about a poet, or a specific poem, or a cultural context in an anthology. These can be extremely helpful for understanding what you read, though such articles sometimes tend to over-intellectualize or psychoanalyze more than is helpful. Be wary, but don't just skip the introductory stuff, especially if you haven't read a lot of poetry yet.

Most importantly, enjoy the poems you encounter. Poems aren't frightening animals relegated to anthologies the way tigers are sent to zoos—fun to look at from a distance, but ultimately destructive or boring (tigers in cages sleep a lot). Poems demand that we engage them on a visceral level, get right up to them and inside them to find out what's going on.

Anthologies are more like happy poem communes, where the creme de la creme go to enjoy each others' company and invite readers into their midst for a nice long chat and maybe some dandelion wine. Not that all poets are hippies, but any poet worth his weight in paper and ink is one who loves words, loves life, loves nature, and tries by all the means at his command to enliven readers with the same loves.

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100 Best-Loved Poems
Dover Thrift Editions
by Philip Smith
from Dover Publications
Poetry for 10th-Adult
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
$5.00
101 Famous Poems
by Roy Cook
from Reilly & Lee Co.
for 9th-Adult
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
101 Great American Poems
Dover Thrift Editions
by Paul Negri
from Dover Publications
Poetry for 10th-Adult
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
$4.00
American History in Verse
by Burton Stevenson
from Bob Jones University Press
Poetry for 3rd-Adult
in American History Reference (Location: HISA-REF)
$11.00
American Poetry
by David S. Shields
from Library of America
for 11th-Adult
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
$20.00 (1 in stock)
Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry
by Tony Barnstone & Chou Ping, eds.
from Anchor Books
for 9th-12th grade
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
$17.00 $9.00 (1 in stock)
Anne's Anthology
by Margie Gray
from Cadron Creek Christian Curriculum
Poetry for 7th-10th grade
in Cadron Creek Literature Guides (Location: LITCUR-CAD)
Annotated Mother Goose
by William S. Baring-Gould & Ceil Baring-Gould
from Bramhall House
for 10th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
Best Loved Poems of the American People
by Hazel Felleman (editor)
from Doubleday & Company
for 9th-Adult
in Vintage Poetry (Location: VIN-POET)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Children's Treasury of Classic Poetry
in Poetry for Children (Location: POET-CHIL)
Civil War Poetry
from Dover Publications
for 9th-Adult
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
$1.75 (1 in stock)
English Epic Poetry
Copper Lodge Library
by Stephanie Bailey Meter (introduction and annotations)
from Classical Conversations
for 9th-12th grade
in Classical Conversations (Location: CUR-CC)
$14.95
English Romantic Poetry
Dover Thrift Editions
by Stanley Appelbaum, editor
from Dover Publications
for Adult
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
$6.00
English Victorian Poetry
by Paul Negri, ed.
from Dover Publications
for 9th-Adult
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
$6.00
Favorite Poems Old and New
by Helen Ferris
from Delacorte Press
Poetry for All ages
in Poetry for Children (Location: POET-CHIL)
$26.99
Favorite Poems Old and New
by Helen Ferris, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard
from Doubleday & Company
Poetry for All ages
in Vintage Poetry (Location: VIN-POET)
Firefly July
by Selected by Paul B. Janeczko, Illustrated by Melissa Sweet
from Candlewick Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Poetry for Children (Location: POET-CHIL)
$8.99
Good Poems
by Garrison Keillor, ed.
from Penguin Classics
for 10th-Adult
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
Great Short Poems
Dover Thrift Editions
by Paul Negri, editor
from Dover Publications
for 9th-12th grade
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
$3.00
Harp and Laurel Wreath
by Laura M. Berquist
from Ignatius Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
$24.95 $15.00 (1 in stock)
Heart to Heart
by Jan Greenberg
from Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
for 7th-12th grade
in Poetry (Location: POET-GEN)
$12.00 (3 in stock)
How Do I Love Thee?
by Linda Rhodes (selected by), illustrated by David Johnson
from Hallmark Publications
for 6th-Adult
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Illustrated Library of World Poetry
by William Cullen Bryant, editor
from Gramercy Books
Poetry for 9th-Adult
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
Kate Greenaway's Language of Flowers
by Kate Greenaway
from Gramercy Books
for all ages
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
Language of Flowers
by Kate Greenaway
from Dover Publications
for all ages
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
$6.95
Learning Language Arts Through Literature - British Poetry Anthology
from Common Sense Press
for 9th-12th grade
in Clearance: English & Language Arts (Location: ZCLE-LAN)
$8.00 $6.00 (1 in stock)
Lover's Posy
by Celia Haddon
from Michael Joseph
Valentine's Day Poetry for 6th-Adult
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Mentor Book of Major American Poets
by Oscar Williams & Edwin Honig
from Mentor Books
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
$8.99 $5.00 (2 in stock)
Modern American and British Poetry
by Louis Untermeyer
from Harcourt, Brace & Company
for Adult
in Vintage Poetry (Location: VIN-POET)
My First Oxford Book of Poems
by John Foster (compiler)
from Oxford University
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Poetry for Children (Location: POET-CHIL)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry
by J. Patrick Lewis
from National Geographic
in Poetry (Location: POET-GEN)
Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America
by Donald Hall
from Oxford University
for 1st-8th grade
in Poetry for Children (Location: POET-CHIL)
Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America
by Donald Hall, ed.
from Oxford University
for 2nd-6th grade
in Poetry for Children (Location: POET-CHIL)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Oxford Book of English Verse
from Oxford University
for 10th-Adult
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
Oxford Book of Friendship
by D.J. Enright & David Rawlison
from Oxford University
for 9th-Adult
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Poems of Faith
from Dover Publications
for 8th-Adult
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
$2.50
Poetry for Young People: Seasons
Poetry for Young People
by John N. Serio
from Scholastic Inc.
in Poetry for Children (Location: POET-CHIL)
Rhymes and Verses
by Walter De la Mare
2002 Reprint from Henry Holt and Company
for 2nd-6th grade
in Poetry for Children (Location: POET-CHIL)
Risking Everything
1st edition from Harmony
in Poetry (Location: POET-GEN)
Road Not Taken & Other Poems
Dover Thrift Editions
by Robert Frost
from Dover Publications
for 9th-Adult
in Poetry (Location: POET-GEN)
$3.00
Shaking the Pumpkin
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
Six American Poets
by Joel Conarroe, ed.
from Vintage Classics
for 9th-Adult
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Six American Poets
by Joel Conarroe, ed.
from University of Minnesota
for 9th-Adult
in Vintage Poetry (Location: VIN-POET)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Songs for the Open Road
from Dover Publications
for 9th-Adult
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
$3.00
Sounds Around the Clock
a Sounds of Language Reader
by Edited by Bill Martin Jr.
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for 2nd-3rd grade
in Poetry for Children (Location: POET-CHIL)
Sounds Around the Clock - Teacher Edition
a Sounds of Language Reader
by Edited by Bill Martin Jr.
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for 2nd-3rd grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Sounds of a Distant Drum
a Sounds of Language Reader
by Edited by Bill Martin Jr.
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for 7th-8th grade
in Poetry for Children (Location: POET-CHIL)
Sounds of a Young Hunter
a Sounds of Language Reader
by Edited by Bill Martin Jr.
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for 6th-7th grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Sounds of Home
a Sounds of Language Reader
by Edited by Bill Martin Jr.
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for Kindergarten-1st grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Sounds of Home - Teacher's Edition
a Sounds of Language Reader
by Edited by Bill Martin Jr.
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for Kindergarten-1st grade
in Poetry for Children (Location: POET-CHIL)
Sounds of Laughter
a Sounds of Language Reader
by Edited by Bill Martin Jr.
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for 3rd-4th grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$5.00 (2 in stock)
Sounds of Mystery
a Sounds of Language Reader
by Edited by Bill Martin Jr.
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for 5th-6th grade
in Poetry for Children (Location: POET-CHIL)
Sounds of Numbers
a Sounds of Language Reader
by Edited by Bill Martin Jr.
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for 1st-2nd grade
in Poetry for Children (Location: POET-CHIL)
Sounds of Numbers - Teacher Edition
a Sounds of Language Reader
by Edited by Bill Martin Jr.
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for 1st-2nd grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Sounds of the Storyteller
a Sounds of Language Reader
by Edited by Bill Martin Jr.
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for 4th-5th grade
in Poetry for Children (Location: POET-CHIL)
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages
by Harold Bloom
from Charles Scribner's Sons
for 3rd-8th grade
in Short Stories (Location: LIT-ANTH)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
Talking to the Sun
by Selected by Kenneth Koch and Kate Farrell
from Henry Holt and Company
in Poetry for Children (Location: POET-CHIL)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Tomie dePaola's Book of Poems
by Tomie DePaola
from Putnam Juvenile
for Nursery-4th grade
in Poetry for Children (Location: POET-CHIL)
Translations from the Chinese
by Arthur Waley
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for 6th-Adult
in Vintage Poetry (Location: VIN-POET)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Treasury of the World's Best Loved Poems
from Avenel Books
for 9th-Adult
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
Treasury of Verse for School and Home
by M. G. Edgar and Eric Chilman, editors
from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
for 3rd-8th grade
in Vintage Poetry (Location: VIN-POET)
$40.00 (1 in stock)
William Wordsworth Favorite Poems
by William Wordsworth
New from Dover Publications
for 10th-Adult
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
$0.50 (1 in stock)
World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others
by Various Authors
from Dover Publications
for 9th-Adult
in Poetry Anthologies (Location: POET-ANTH)
$3.50
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