| Herman M. Ward has created a new kind ofanthology, designed above all to develop genuinelove for poetry rather than to force the reader toread what others believe he ought to like. The edi-tor spent many hours with high school students todetermine what kind of poetry they really enjoy.Each of the poems in this anthology was actuallyvoted on by them. Poems for Pleasure is a book foryoung adults which accurately reflects their tastein poetry. The range of this collection is wide: i29 poemsby 72 English and American poets are included.Among the poems are "The Raven" by Poe, "WhenI Was One-and-Twenty" by Housman, "0 Captain!My Captain !" by Whitman, "Renascence" by Mil-lay, "Chicago" by Sandburg, "The Ballad of Eastand West" by Kipling, and poems by Shakespeare,Keats, Frost, Shelley, Byron, Nash, Cummings, andmany others, |
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