Poems for every day of the year
Subtitle: 366 beautiful poems of love, inspiration and encouragement
By: edited by Karen McCosker & Nicholas Albery.
Contributors: McCosker, Karen, 1948-; Albery, Nicholas.
Publisher: Galahad Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Edison, N.J
Number of pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9781578661275
Subjects: English poetry.; American poetry.
Other titles: Poem a day.
Work titles: Poem for the day.
Description: In times past, Americans with a love of poetry routinely learned by heart dozens of poems - Shakespeare's sonnets, stirring patriotic verse, odes to churchyards and elegies for the departed, the wit of Dorothy Parker and the music of Swinburne or Poe or Yeats. This collections includes 366 poems old and new, one for each day of the year, worth learning by heart. All share two things in common - they are short enough to learn in a day, and good enough to stand with the great poetry of the language, from Chaucer to Sylvia Plath. On most pages readers will also find brief, often amusing, interesting trivia about the poets and their poems.