This book is designed to be a self-learning tool for undergraduate and post-graduate students who wish to understand and enjoy the beauty of good English poetry. It is meant to assist students in appreciating such concepts of poetic technique as form, rhythm, structure and figures of speech through extensive activities, questions and discussions.

Rich selection of 123 poems by six great English Romantic poets: William Blake (24 poems), William Wordsworth (27 poems), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (10 poems), Lord Byron (16 poems), Percy Bysshe Shelley (24 poems) and John Keats (22 poems). Introduction and brief commentaries on the poets. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "Ozymandias" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn."

Compact anthology features many of the best works by 59 poets writing in English, among them Edmund Spenser, Christina Rossetti, John Milton, Robert Burns, and William Blake.

Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries includes works by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, other notables.

Simply put, this resource will serve as your road map to understanding the poetry component of the CCSS--from favorite poet and author, Georgia Heard!