Posted by evelynapeters
Aug 20, 2009 8:31 pm

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• I looked over the list of poems included and found then on the "light" side for a college textbook. If you took AP English or English for college bound students, you should have read at least 90% of them by the end of your Junior year. Many are used or referenced on SAT questions (I don't know about ACTs?). I was also surprised that one of the most influential poets from the Romantic period, William Blake, was entirely left off the list. And if this was a class for British Literature, there were a good many poets included who definitely were not British! God Save the Queen! Unless you are taking this course in high school, then the book has value, otherwise it's a complete waste of money and there are much better books on introduction to verse/poetry that will include Greek and Roman verse, which are so important to our Judeo-Christian history of Western literature (especially if studying British Literature).

  Aug 21, 2009 11:38 pm
  by elliott57

• A Divine Image
  William Blake
  
  Cruelty has a human heart,
  And Jealousy a human face;
  Terror the human form divine,
  And secrecy the human dress.
  
  The human dress is forged iron,
  The human form a fiery forge,
  The human face a furnace seal'd,
  The human heart its hungry gorge.

  Aug 22, 2009 12:08 am
  by elliott57

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