Title: Disappointing
Review: Disappointing. The collection lacks many of the standards that a lot of people think are essential to understanding the last century of poetry: Missing from the collection are Yeats' The Second Coming, Walt Whitman's Song of Myself, Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan, Tennyson's Ulysses, and Carl Sandburg's Fog or Chicago, among others. No poems at all are included by such modern masters as e.e.cummings, Allen Ginsberg, John Crowe Ransom, or Theodore Roethke. In spite of its size and wide ranging selections from world poets and personal favorites, the book doesn't have the basics that are necessary for a good anthology or poetry text.
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