50 Years of Books to Remember: Best Words Best Order: Poets with passion and polish
Annotation:A vivid translation of the classic tale of bravery and monsters, heroism and loss.
Annotation:The definitive edition of the work of the great poet and activist.
Annotation:Old, new, and revised work from the famed eighty-year-old poet. (Complete Poems published in 1994 by Penguin.)
Annotation:Precise and elegant poetry about the current problems facing man in the sixties. (Two of Lowell's finest books of poetry were combined and published in 1967 with a new title - Life Studies, and For the Union Dead.)
Annotation:The former Poet Laureate's new collection sheds light on both history's most famous and most forgotten characters.
Annotation:A major American poet's own selection of her work which serves not only as a retrospective, but also as "the graph of a process still going on."
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A representative selection from over 1500 titles on annual lists of Books to Remember from 1956 to 2005. Compiled by Francie Einenkel and Susan Chute, Librarians, The New York Public Library.
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