Best Remembered Poems

The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th and 20th century British and American verse range from the impassioned &quote;Renascence&quote; of Edna St. Vincent Millay to Edward Lear's whimsical &quote;The Owl and the Pussycat&quote; and James Whitcomb Riley’s homespun &quote;When the Frost Is on the Punkin.&quote; Famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman, and Frost are well-represented, as are less well-known poets such as John McCrae (&quote;In Flanders Fields&quote;) and Ernest Thayer (&quote;Casey at the Bat&quote;). Includes 10 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: &quote;The Owl and the Pussycat,&quote; &quote;Casey at the Bat,&quote; &quote;Jabberwocky,&quote; &quote;O Captain! My Captain!,&quote; &quote;Paul Revere's Ride,&quote; &quote;Ozymandias,&quote; &quote;The Raven,&quote; &quote;Because I Could Not Stop for Death,&quote; &quote;Mending Wall,&quote; and &quote;Ode on a Grecian Urn.&quote;