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The Random House Treasury of Best-Loved Poems

by Louis Phillips · 1990

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Favorite poems celebrating the finest things in life—love, faith, family, country, and the beauty of nature

*Features more than 100 poets, including William Blake, Lewis Carroll, John Keats, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, and other familiar greats

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*Newly updated. Now includes contemporary voices such as Seamus Heaney, Anne Carson, Czeslaw Miloscz, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Raymond Carver

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1990s1990sMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 374 pages
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