101 Great American Poems, Paperback by American Poetry & Literacy Project (Mi...

Focusing on popular verse from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this treasury of great American poems offers a taste of the nations rich poetic legacy. Selected for both popularity and literary quality, the compilation includes Robert Frosts "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," Walt Whitmans "I Hear America Singing," and Ralph Waldo Emersons "Concord Hymn," as well as poems by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and many other notables.
Chosen by the non-profit organization American Poetry & Literacy Project, these much-loved verses include 13 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "Casey at the Bat," "Fog," "The New Colossus," "Chicago," "I, Too, Sing America," "O Captain! My Captain!," "Paul Reveres Ride," "The Road Not Taken," "The Raven," "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "Mending Wall," "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and "The River Merchants Wife: A Letter."