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Mar 7, 2019 · Today is the anniversary of the publication of Robert Frost’s iconic poem “ Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” a fact that spurred the Literary Hub office into a long conversation about their favorite poems, the most iconic poems written in English, and which poems we should all have already read (or at least be reading next).
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Poems - The 32 Most Iconic Poems in the English Language
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Sylvia Plath - The 32 Most Iconic Poems in the English...
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Elizabeth Bishop - The 32 Most Iconic Poems in the English...
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A collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning African American poet, covering themes of urban life, civil rights, and history. Read reviews, ratings, and quotes from this classic volume of poetry.
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A collection of poems by the Harlem Renaissance poet, chosen by him shortly before his death. The poems celebrate the experience of invisible men and women, and blend the spoken and the sung, the lyric and the polemic.
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This volume contains a rich selection from the most creative phase of his life, including extracts from his masterpiece, The Prelude, and the best-loved of his shorter poems such as ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’, ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’, ‘Lucy Gray’, and ‘Michael’.
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This miniature book contains 65 selected poems written by Emily Dickinson between the years 1858 and 1865. Emily, an educated American woman from Amherst, Massachusetts lived an eccentric, reclusive life only anonymously publishing less than a dozen of the 1,175 poems she authored.
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A collection of poems by a Modernist poet who used syllabics, quotes, and animal imagery. Learn about her life, style, and famous lines such as "I, too, dislike it."
Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Juan Felipe Herrera, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and more.
