Dr. Pendleton's Recommended
Language is essential to communication, which in turn is essential to developing concepts of identity and purpose. Poetry breathes life into language. Listed below are direct links to a few of the poems (just click on the title of the poem) that have helped me find insight into my own sense of identity and purpose:
The following listed books and audio recordings of poetry are well worth looking at and listening to:
- (anthology by William Harmon) - The Top 500 Poems
- (anthology by Richard Ellmann) - The New Oxford Book of American Verse
- (anthology by Christopher Richs) - The Oxford Book of English Verse
- American Wits: Ogden Nash, Dorthy Parker, Phyllis McGinley - Voice of the Poet (Audio CD)
- Auden, W.H. - Voice of the Poet: W.H. Auden (Audio CD)
- Cummings, E.E. - Complete Poems 1904-1962
- Dickinson, Emily - Fifty Poems of Emily Dickinson (Audio CD)
- Frost, Robert - Voice of the Poet: Robert Frost (Audio CD)
- Ginsberg, Allen - Voice of the Poet: Allen Ginsberg (Audio CD)
- Hughes, Langston - Voice of the Poet: Allen Langston Hughes (Audio CD)
- Jarrell, Randall - Voice of the Poet: Randall Jarrell (Audio Cassette)
- Joyce, James - Collected Poems
- Kunitz, Stanley - Collected Poems
- Lawrence, D.H. - Complete Poems
- Denise Levertov - Selected Poems
- Plath, Sylvia - Voice of the Poet: Plath (Audio Cassette)
- Robinson, Edwin Arlington - Collected Poems
- Williams, William Carlos - Selected Poems
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February 2005