The Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry Christopher Burns 9780976886624 Books
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Now in its sixth printing and adopted as a text by more than 50 top colleges and secondary schools. One well known prep school provides a copy of the anthology to each incoming freshman and the faculty teaches to the book for four years. From Geoffrey Chaucer to e.e. cummings, from William Shakespeare to Anne Sexton, here are the great American and British poems of the last 500 years, organized by subject in a new and provocative way. "Great Poetry is personal," writes Christopher Burns in his introduction to this extraordinary collection. "Like a seashell held to your ear, a poem resonates to the beating of your heart. The poet brings the words, you bring your life, and together you make the song."
Poets as diverse as Tennyson and Teasdale echo the themes of Western Wind hundreds of years apart. Maya Angelou and Janet Flanders, like talk show hosts sitting on stools, swap stories about their mothers. Robert Browning and Richard Wilbur, separated by more than a century, talk about the way men look at women. Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg describe the America each has found. Here are the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay and Carl Sandburg, often ignored in the last few years, along with the masterpieces of William Butler Yeats, Theodore Roethke, Denise Levertov and Langston Hughes. Some of the poems are funny, others are sad, but all are unforgettable.
Great poetry transcends the boundaries of place, time, gender, and race. Although there was no intention to be representative, half the poems were written by Americans and half by English, Irish, Welsh, Scottish and Canadian poets. And this anthology is modern a third of the poems were written in the last fifty years and a third were written between 1900 and 1945.
The poems are organized to follow the contours of life the loneliness of the artist, the uses of war, the role of nature, the constancy of love, and the coming on of death. And like all great poems, they are about you. As you read them, be prepared to hear your own heart roaring in your ear.
Poets represented by more than one poem include John Ashbery, W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, John Berryman, William Blake, Rupert Brooke, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Lewis Carroll. Mary Coleridge, e. e. cummings, Walter de la Mare, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Ernest Dowson, T.S. Eliot, Mari Evans, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Seamus Heaney, Robert Herrick, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A. E. Housman, Langston Hughes, Randall Jarrell, Robinson Jeffers, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Etheridge Knight, D. H. Lawrence, Denise Levertov, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Amy Lowell, Robert Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, John Masefield, Claude McKay, W.S. Merwin, Charlotte Mew, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Mlton, Sharon Olds, Wilfred Owen, Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound, Charles Reznikoff, Adrienne Rich, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Roethke, Christina Rossetti, Carl Sandburg, Sigfried Sassoon, Robert Service, Anne Sexton, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Gary Snyder, May Swenson, Sara Teasdale, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, Walt Whitman, Anna Wickham, Richard Wilbur, C. K. Williams, William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth, James Wright, Elinor Wylie, and William Butler Yeats. (2.05)
The Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry Christopher Burns 9780976886624 Books
I'm reviewing the Kindle edition of this book. I wasn't sure what to expect from the Seashell Anthology, never having heard of the Seashell Press or Christopher Burns, but the free sample was enough to convince me that I NEEDED this book. It's a terrific compendium of poetry old and new. The introductory essay is intelligent, and the poems themselves are truly great and well-chosen. Even better, they are so placed that they create new associations for the reader -- three poems about the creation of the world, with three different visions, one after the next, and then seguing into poems about the creative process itself. Even very familiar works like Fern Hill read differently when placed between other poems that connect to it somehow thematically.Plus, the formatting is very good, as verse on the Kindle goes.
As a physical book, I would never have purchased this -- I have too many of these poems in other anthologies or various "collected works." Some of the most famous works in the English language are here, and if you are interested in poetry at all you probably have them on a shelf somewhere too. But so many of my favorites in one easy-to-navigate (the table of contents is great, you can jump to sections or to a particular poem in a snap), reasonably priced, portable file that can travel with me? That is just what I wanted -- and the unfamiliar poems (all of the ones I've read so far are wonderful) and the great work by the anthologist are an unexpected bonus.
If you have even the slightest interest in poetry, I can't recommend this anthology highly enough.
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The Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry Christopher Burns 9780976886624 Books Reviews
Wonderful anthology of poems divided by topic, It has everything from Chance and Shakespeare. It Ranges from Sir Walter Raleigh to Maya Angelou. With all the greats in-between like Robert Frost, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, An n Sexton, D. H. Lawrence, Emma Lazarus, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, John Milton, Edgar Allen Poe, Ezra Pound, Adrienne Rich, Carl Sandburg, Dylan Thomas, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Keats Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Rudyard Kipling, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Burns, Robert Browning, Lewis Carroll, e.e. cumming, Julie Ward Howe, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, A.E. Housman. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sara Teasdale, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Ernst Dowson, Allan Ginsberg, Percy Bysshe Shelly, William Wordsworth and William Butler Yeats; just to name a few in this lovely anthology of poetry in the English Language.
This interesting anthology was first copyrighted in 1996 and the version, which I have came out as Release 3.2 in August 2014. Be sure to read the introduction, otherwise you might not understand how to navigate through the rather eccentrically arranged contents--purportedly by subject, but subjects such as "The Highwayman" and "My Papa's Waltz." Plus I love the first sentence
"Great poetry is personal. Like a seashell held to your ear, a poem resonates to the beating of your heart, matching the design of its inner chamber to the contours of your mind."
How true! According to editor, Christopher Burns, the purpose of this anthology is to "re-emphasize the personal aspect of poetry." He selected poems from "500 years of mostly American and English literature" including Chaucer, but fear not--most of the poems that I've read so far are concentrated in the 19th and 20th centuries. According to Burns, a third of the collected poems were written in the last fifty years, and a second third were written between 1900 and 1945.
There are poets in here that I don't ordinarily like, e.g. Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg, but I've also stumbled across gems such as "Ars Poetica" by Archibald MacLeish that I immediately printed out and memorized.
The version is set up so that you can keep returning to the Table of Contents (TOC) after you've read a particular poem. Or you can read straight through, savoring the poems that (as the editor has stated in his introduction) resonate to the beating of your heart.
This is one of those only-book-you-need-on-a-desert-island books. Really.
Christopher Burns has put together a poetry anthology that spans the great, the common, and personal favorites, sometimes separately and sometimes overlapping. His introduction is intelligent and thoughtful. The poems are partnered in ways that elucidate and will make you re-think -- and re-feel -- poems you thought you already knew. This collection manages to "make it new" all over again. I found poems I loved, I found poems and poets I'd never heard of, and I found myself seeing old familiars in totally new ways.
This is what poetry should be -- totally fresh, deeply felt, thoughtfully arranged and articulated. The editor finds new but timeless kinships among poems you knew but had never considered side by side. Carl Sandburg's 1916 poem "Jack" ("Jack was a swarthy, swaggering son-of-a-gun") next to the General Prologue of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" shines a new light on both of them.
Sparks fly when you read Robinson Jeffers'"Hurt Hawks" (1924) next to Edna St. Vincent Millay's "God's World" (1913). Such radically different styles, separated by only a decade (and a war). The difference and the common thread are both exposed by the juxtaposition.
This is one of only 2 or 3 poetry volumes that I've found well-formatted for the . It is indexed, with a good Table of Contents, all the pieces linked as they need to be on such a device. It is such a refreshing collection I wouldn't mind having it on the and in print. I think the experience of each would be different, and wonderful.
I'm reviewing the edition of this book. I wasn't sure what to expect from the Seashell Anthology, never having heard of the Seashell Press or Christopher Burns, but the free sample was enough to convince me that I NEEDED this book. It's a terrific compendium of poetry old and new. The introductory essay is intelligent, and the poems themselves are truly great and well-chosen. Even better, they are so placed that they create new associations for the reader -- three poems about the creation of the world, with three different visions, one after the next, and then seguing into poems about the creative process itself. Even very familiar works like Fern Hill read differently when placed between other poems that connect to it somehow thematically.
Plus, the formatting is very good, as verse on the goes.
As a physical book, I would never have purchased this -- I have too many of these poems in other anthologies or various "collected works." Some of the most famous works in the English language are here, and if you are interested in poetry at all you probably have them on a shelf somewhere too. But so many of my favorites in one easy-to-navigate (the table of contents is great, you can jump to sections or to a particular poem in a snap), reasonably priced, portable file that can travel with me? That is just what I wanted -- and the unfamiliar poems (all of the ones I've read so far are wonderful) and the great work by the anthologist are an unexpected bonus.
If you have even the slightest interest in poetry, I can't recommend this anthology highly enough.
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