Best Remembered Poems

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