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Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology Of Poems To Read Aloud (2009)

by Robert Pinsky(Favorite Author)

4.07 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0393066088 (ISBN13: 9780393066081)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

review 1: Finished! I've been reading this collection of poems FOR-EV-ER! I had one library copy for at least six months and then someone requested it, so I had to send it back. But I was so close to the end, I reserved it again and was able to finish it. To figure out which poem I want to memorize each month, I need to read a lot of poems. This was a good anthology, ranging over many centuries with a suitable mix of men and women. It also includes a CD of Pinsky reading some of the poems, which I've not listened to. It does not include a blurb about each poet, which I would have liked, but otherwise, a good book that has yielded seven poems I have memorized and a nice list of potential ones.
review 2: Super read! Lots of great poems! I found some old ones and dis... morecovered new ones. Some of my favorite include:When You're Lying Awake with a Dismal Headache by W.S. GilbertColumbus by Ogden NashThe House that Jack Built by AnonymousJabberwocky by Lewis CarrollWhen I Was Fair & Young by Queen Elizabeth IConcord Hymn by Ralph Waldo EmersonBattle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward HoweMy Last Duchess by Robert BrowningHome Burial by Robert FrostTributaries by Louise GluckFrederick Douglass by Robert HaydenPaul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowOzymandias by Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Lost Pilot by James TateCasey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence ThayerThe Tyger aka Tyger! Tyger! Burning Bright by William BlakeTo Brooklyn Bridge by Hart CraneOde to a Grecian Urn and Ode to a Nightingale by John KeatsChemo Side Effects: Memory by Elise PartridgeThere's also a CD included, but I didn't listen to it. I prefer to read my poetry aloud and not listen to it. less

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