{"product_id":"the-top-500-poems-hardcover","title":"The Top 500 Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam Harmon\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Top 500 Poems\u003c\/i\u003e offers a vivid portrait of poetry in English, assembling a host of popular and enduring poems as chosen by critics, editors, poets, and general readers. These works speak across centuries, beginning with Chaucer's resourceful inventions and moving through Shakespeare's masterpieces, John Donne's complex originality, and Alexander Pope's mordant satires. The anthology also features perennial favorites such as William Blake, William Wordsworth, and John Keats; Emily Dickinson's prisms of profundity; the ironies of Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot; and the passion of Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg. These 500 poems are verses that readers either know already or will want to know, encapsulating the visceral power of truly great literature. William Harmon provides illuminating commentary to each work and a rich introduction that ties the entire collection together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Harmon is the James Gordon Hanes Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eA Handbook to Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Classic Hundred Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Book of American Light Verse\u003c\/i\u003e, and he is the author of several volumes of poetry, including winners of the Lamont Award and the William Carlos Williams Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1132\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.4 x 9.1 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 10, 1992\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754061660448,"sku":"9780231080286","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8f35df6b1e7230c959a24f9a9b7dac82.webp?v=1780032581","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-top-500-poems-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}