Best of
Poetry

1920

Fire and Ice


Robert Frost - 1920
    It discusses the end of the world, likening the elemental force of fire with the emotion of desire, and ice with hate. It is one of Frost's best-known and most anthologized poems.Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_and...

Flame and Shadow


Sara Teasdale - 1920
    Teasdale's major themes were love, nature's beauty, and death, and her poems were much loved during the early 20th century. She won the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America for her volume, Love Songs. Her style and lyricism are well illustrated in her poem, Spring Night (1915), from that collection. She was influenced by the British poet Christina Rossetti. Teasdale was very much a product of her Victorian upbringing and was never able to experience in life the passion that she expressed in her poetry. A common urban legend surrounds Teasdale's 1933 suicide claims that her poem, I Shall Not Care was penned as a suicide note to a former lover. However, the poem was actually first published in her 1915 collection Rivers to the Sea, a full 18 years before her suicide. Her last collection of verse, Strange Victory, was published posthumously in 1933. Amongst her other works are Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911), Love Songs (1917), Vignettes of Italy (1919) and Flame and Shadow (1920).

A Few Figs from Thistles


Edna St. Vincent Millay - 1920
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There Will Come Soft Rains


Sara Teasdale - 1920
    The inspiration for Ray Bradbury's story.From Sara Teasdale's "Flame and Shadow" collection.

The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems


Edna St. Vincent Millay - 1920
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The House of Dust


Conrad Aiken - 1920
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The Best Loved Poems of James Whitcomb Riley


James Whitcomb Riley - 1920
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Anthem for Doomed Youth


Wilfred Owen - 1920
    Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918). Owen is available in Penguin Classics in Three Poets of the First World War: Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen.

Collected Poems 1901-1918 In Two Volumes - Volume I.


Walter de la Mare - 1920
    He is best known for his children's stories. His love of imagination made his children's books very popular, but this also may have contributed to his other writings being taken less seriously. The Listeners is his most famous work. This volume contains the following sections: lyrical poems, characters from Shakespeare, sonnets, memories from Childhood, The Listeners, and Motley.