Master of Verse: More of A Primer for High School Juniors

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.. 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.

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