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Summary: Great, Wonderful, Fun
Review: A copy of this book was given to me at the tender age of six. From that point on, it became my favorite book. Today, I am 30, and I still cherish my old dog-eared copy. Rudyard Kipling's "If" and Eugene O'Neils's "The Duel" are just a few of the delights waiting for you. Unfortunately, this volume only represents European and Americans-of-the-"White"-Persuasion authors. For a more well-rounded collection of the world's poetry, you will have to find other books to supplement this one. Highly recommended. :)
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Summary: The best ever "back pocket" poetry book.
Review: From the time I was only a few years old, my father was reading to me from this book of famous poems. I still have my "dog eared" copy given to me from my father. Today, when our family gets together for celebrations, my father and I always find time to sit alone and share a few of these timeless verses etched in our memories. For anyone who enjoys the mental painting of beautifully phrased words, this book is for you. It has 101 of the best poems in the world, with a good variety of authors and well chosen classics. You will not be disappointed.
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Summary: a classic, but...
Review: i have to say that i enjoy reading poems, but then too much of old classics that in the end i gave up and gave it to my father in law ;))). maybe some sort of generation gap here (plus cultural gap! as i m an asian), well, i will then try some more modern stuffs... ;))). anyway whoever love old classics should have this, and to grace a library, this is also a must... Tanadi Santoso, 12/97
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Summary: Great, Wonderful, Fun
Review: I love this book. The poems are great and I can find the poems that Anne says in the movie, "Anne of green Gables" and "Anne of Avonlee" I love the poems. I like These are the Times That try Mens Soals.
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Summary: Solid old standard
Review: My father had an old copy of this book that he read as a child. He loved to read his favorites from this book, or simply recite them from memory. They are classic rhyming poems. Another favorite book of mine is "Poetry for a Lifetime", a beautiful volume which includes a number of these poems, including "Plant a Tree" and "Home". It has a much larger number of poems and is illustrated and has comments from the editor. I highly recommend both books.
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Summary: Nostalgia at its Finest
Review: This was my Dad's poetry text at college in the thirties. Every Christmas during his life he would read the 'holiday' poems to our family. I have carried on the tradition for my children and grandchildren and each year they await the reading of 'Bairnies Coodle Doon' and 'Jes for Christmas', two wonderful stories that bring forward the lives of children of a hundred years ago. If tradition is important to you and if you want to introduce your family to poetry as America knew it for the first 200 years, this collection if highly recommended.
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