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.
