APRIL 2021:
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APRIL 1 |
According to Best Poems Encyclopedia, here are the "Top 100 best and all time famous and most popular poems in English literature," HERE.
What do you think? Are there any poems you think are missing from the list? |
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APRIL 2 |
Another Top 100 list -- this one from Poetry Soup -- is HERE.
I glanced at the list from April 1 and tonight's list, and I believe I saw 13 poems that appear on both lists:
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APRIL 3 |
One other Top 100 list -- this one from Discover Poetry -- is HERE.
I compared the poems listed above (in the April 2nd entry) to see which ones of those also appear on this list (and therefore appear on all three lists): |
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APRIL 4 |
Now for something a little different: A list from Family Friend Poems of the 32 Most Popular Children's Poems -- HERE.
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APRIL 5 |
For today's entry, I ran a Google-search on "Best poems by African-American Poets," and lists did come up -- but no "Top 100" list. Not even close. All of the lists were like "10 Best Poems," "12 Best Poems," or even "the Top 20 poems by African-American poets" -- but no lists popped up with 25, 50 or 100 poems.
This list, "22 Revolutionary Poems by Black Poets," from TrueSelf.com caught my eye, HERE. How many of the poems and/or poets are you familiar with? |
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APRIL 6 |
InterestingLiterature.com has this list of "10 of the Best Poems to Recite and Read Aloud," HERE.
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APRIL 7 |
Last night I watched PBS's first installment of Ken Burns' new documentary "Hemingway," and I learned that in addition to fiction and non-fiction works, Hemingway also wrote poetry.
Check out "the best" of Hemingway's poetry HERE. Click the pic below to link to the PBS site on "Hemingway." 
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APRIL 8 |
PoemAnalysis.com says that these are the "10 Best (and Easiest) Poems to Analyze" --
HERE. To "explore all things Poetry" at PoemAnalysis.com, click the picture below: 
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APRIL 9 |
Are there lists of the 100 best haikus? I wondered -- so I ran a Google-search of "best haikus," and while I didn't find a list of the 100 best haikus, I did find this from readpoetry.com: "10 Vivid Haikus to Leave You Breathless" -- HERE.
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APRIL 10 |
Well, I couldn't find a list of the 100 best haikus yesterday, but I did find a list of "100 Best Funny Poems and Limericks" from Best Poems Encyclopedia, HERE.
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APRIL 11 |
Who are the greatest poets of all time?
Well, according to HubPages.com, a list of the "Top 100 Famous Poets of the World" is HERE. Take a look and see if you agree with their choices. Is your favorite poet on the list? |
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APRIL 12 |
The entry above for April 11 is a list of Top 100 poets from HubPages.com.
Another list of the "Top 100 Poets of All Time" from PoetrySoup.com is HERE. So which poets appear on both lists? Well, before I answer that, I will say that when I compared the two lists, I found an issue with HubPages' list -- three names appear on their list twice: Tennyson, Pushkin, and Mayakovsky. Therefore, their list of 100 poets is really only 97 poets. Okay, so which poets appear on both lists? The names are below:
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APRIL 13 |
Okay, so I found another "Top 100" list of the greatest poets of all time at Ranker.ocm -- HERE -- and in the case of this list, it looks like people vote on the poets, and the entries rise or fall according to the votes that are cast.
I happened to check the list on 4/12/21, and I compared it to the two lists above (for the April 11 and 12 entries). Actually, I checked the names that are shown above -- those poets who are on both of the previous Top 100 lists -- to see who made it onto all three lists -- and the results were VERY surprising. The ONLY five names that appeared on all three Top 100 lists (as of 4/12/21) were Bai, Issa, Hughes, Marvell, and Mayakovsky. Interestingly enough, the names of Angelou, Plath, and Shakespeare appear in the explanatory paragraph at the top of the Ranker.com page -- but on the night I checked, those three poets were NOT on Ranker's Top 100 list. Walt Whitman was also NOT on the Ranker list; however, his picture was showing at the top of the page (at least it was on 4/12/21). The poets below appeared on the Top 100 lists featured on the entries above for 4/11 and 4/12 above; however, they were NOT on the Ranker list (on the evening of 4/12/21):
*Yeats was NOT on the list; however, he was mentioned in the entry for George William Russell, who was in spot 100 on the night I checked the Ranker list. |
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APRIL 14 |
From the blog of Mark Forsyth, check out the "Fifty Most Quoted Lines from Poetry," HERE.
SPOILER ALERT: Lines from Emily Dickinson's poetry appear twice on the list. |
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