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The English Teacher's Favorites: Poetry

Our Maverick English Teacher lists books he loves for their own sakes. Here he looks at poetry, and comes up with an eclectic, idiosyncratic list of books for which he holds a special place in his heart, even if he can't explain why
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The Anglo Saxon World (Kevin Crossley-Holland)
The Anglo Saxon World
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Kevin Crossley-Holland
Beach Red (Peter Bowman)
Beach Red
2
Peter Bowman
Beowulf (Crossley-Holland)
Beowulf
3
Crossley-Holland
The Best of Ogden Nash (Ogden Nash)
The Best of Ogden Nash
4
Ogden Nash
The Cantos (Ezra Pound)
The Cantos
5
Ezra Pound
The Collected Poems of George MacKay Brown (George MacKay Brown)
The Collected Poems of George MacKay Brown
6
George MacKay Brown
Collected Poems of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle (H.D.))
Collected Poems of H.D.
7
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Langston Hughes)
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
8
Langston Hughes
Collected Poems of Ted Hughes
Collected Poems of Ted Hughes
9
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats (W.B. Yeats)
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
10
W.B. Yeats
Collected Poems of W.H. Auden (W.H. Auden)
Collected Poems of W.H. Auden
11
W.H. Auden
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (Wallace Stevens)
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Collected Poems Stevie Smith (Stevie Smith)
Collected Poems Stevie Smith
13
Stevie Smith
The Complete Poems and Plays of T.S. Eliot
The Complete Poems and Plays of T.S. Eliot
14
The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (Robert Burns)
The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
15
Robert Burns
The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton (Anne Sexton)
The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton
16
Anne Sexton
The Complete Poems of E. E. Cummings (E. E. Cummings)
The Complete Poems of E. E. Cummings
17
E. E. Cummings
The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë (Emily Brontë)
The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë
18
Emily Brontë
A Coney Island of the Mind (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
A Coney Island of the Mind
19
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
20
Dante Alighieri
Dover Beach (Matthew Arnold)
Dover Beach
21
Matthew Arnold
Duino Elegies (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Duino Elegies
22
Rainer Maria Rilke
The Earliest English Poems (Various)
The Earliest English Poems
23
Various
A Far Rockaway of the Heart (Ferlinghetti)
A Far Rockaway of the Heart
24
Ferlinghetti
The Gates of the Alamo (Stephen Harrigan)
The Gates of the Alamo
25
Stephen Harrigan
The Gawain Poet (Penguin Classics)
The Gawain Poet
26
Penguin Classics
Howl (1955) - Allen Ginsberg
Howl (1955) - Allen Ginsberg
27
Idylls of the King (Alfred Lord Tennyson)
Idylls of the King
28
Alfred Lord Tennyson
In Someone's Shadow (Rod McKuen)
In Someone's Shadow
29
Rod McKuen
John Brown's Body (Stephen Vincent Benet)
John Brown's Body
30
Stephen Vincent Benet
John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) (John Keats)
John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
31
John Keats
Kaddish (Allen Ginsberg)
Kaddish
32
Allen Ginsberg
The Last Night of the Earth
The Last Night of the Earth
33
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass
34
Walt Whitman
Light Armour (Richard Armour)
Light Armour
35
Richard Armour
A Light in the Attic (Shel Silverstein)
A Light in the Attic
36
Shel Silverstein
Lonesome Cities (Rod McKuen)
Lonesome Cities
37
Rod McKuen
Lyrical Ballads (William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Lyrical Ballads
38
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore
39
Medieval English Verse (Stone)
Medieval English Verse
40
Stone
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