Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include:
"Strong Men Riding Horses" by Gwendolyn Brooks
"Tears, Idle Tears" by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"This Is My Letter to the World" by Emily Dickinson
"Toads" by Philip Larkin
"The Tropics in New York" by Claude McKay
"When I Was One and Twenty" by A. E. Houseman
And more
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Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? - Thomas Hardy.
As I Walked Out One Evening - W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden.
Concord Hymn - Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The Death of the Hired Man - Robert (Lee) Frost.
Hawk Roosting - Ted Hughes.
The Highwayman - Alfred Noyes.
Hunger in New York City - Simon Ortiz.
Oysters - Anne Sexton.
Psalm 23 - Anonymous.
Richard Cory - Edwin Arlington Robinson.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Shine, Perishing Republic - Robinson Jeffers.
Sir Patrick Spens - Anonymous.
Sonnet 30 - William Shakespeare.
Strong Men Riding Horses - Gwendolyn (Elizabeth) Brooks.
Tears, Idle Tears - Alfred Lord Tennyson.
This Is My Letter to the World - Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson.
Toads - Philip (Arthur) Larkin.
The Tropics in New York - Claude McKay.
When I Was One and Twenty - A(fred) E(dward) Housman.