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English Literature: The Essentials, Part 2 - Poetry - Page 2

Our maverick English Literature instructor and theatre director lists 100 anthologies, collections, and significant works in an attempt to offer a core reading list in English Poetry. Once again, historic perspective and verisimilitude were taken into account, so that many omissions and hard choices had to be made, and it is hoped that both the selections and omissions will spark lively discussions.
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Kubla Khan (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Kubla Khan
41
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lord Byron: The Major Works (Lord Byron)
Lord Byron: The Major Works
42
Lord Byron
Don Juan (Lord Byron)
Don Juan
43
Lord Byron
She Walks in Beauty (Lord Byron)
She Walks in Beauty
44
Lord Byron
John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) (John Keats)
John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
45
John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn (John Keats)
Ode on a Grecian Urn
46
John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to a Nightingale
47
Collected Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Collected Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
48
Prometheus Unbound (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Prometheus Unbound
49
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to a Skylark (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Ode to a Skylark
50
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
51
Women Romantic Poets: 1785-1832 (Jennifer Breen (Ed.))
Women Romantic Poets: 1785-1832
52
Jennifer Breen (Ed.)
Sonnets From the Portuguese (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Sonnets From the Portuguese
53
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning's Poetry (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning's Poetry
54
Robert Browning
My Last Duchess (Robert Browning)
My Last Duchess
55
Robert Browning
Collected Poems (Tennyson)
Collected Poems
56
Tennyson
Idylls of the King (Alfred Lord Tennyson)
Idylls of the King
57
Alfred Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam (Alfred Lord Tennyson)
In Memoriam
58
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Crossing the Bar (Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Crossing the Bar
59
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Poems (Christina Rosetti)
Poems
60
Christina Rosetti
The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
61
The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
62
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems (A.E. Housman)
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems
63
A.E. Housman
Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy
Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy
64
Collected Poems of Matthew Arnold
Collected Poems of Matthew Arnold
65
Dover Beach (Mathew Arnold)
Dover Beach
66
Mathew Arnold
Collected Poems (Swineburne)
Collected Poems
67
Swineburne
Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats
Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats
68
When You Are Old Early Poems and Fairy Tales (William Butler Yeats)
When You Are Old Early Poems and Fairy Tales
69
William Butler Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium (Yeats)
Sailing to Byzantium
70
Yeats
The Second Coming (W. B. Yeats)
The Second Coming
71
W. B. Yeats
The Wild Swans at Coole (W. B. Yeats)
The Wild Swans at Coole
72
W. B. Yeats
Easter, 1916 (William Butler Yeats)
Easter, 1916
73
William Butler Yeats
Purgatory (W.B. Yeats)
Purgatory
74
W.B. Yeats
Collected Poems (D.H. Lawrence)
Collected Poems
75
D.H. Lawrence
Collected Poems
Collected Poems
76
Collected Poems (Siegfried Sassoon)
Collected Poems
77
Siegfried Sassoon
The War Poems (Siegfried Sassoon)
The War Poems
78
Siegfried Sassoon
Poems (James Joyce)
Poems
79
James Joyce
Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot (T.S. Eliot)
Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot
80
T.S. Eliot
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