The Best Poems of the English Language
from Chaucer through Robert Frost
chosen and introduced by Harold Bloom · 2004
The poems are old enough to belong to everyone.
The anthology is not. Which poems, in what order, under which
headings — and every word of the introductions and the glosses in the
margin — are Harold Bloom’s work, and that selection and arrangement is
his even where the verse inside it is public domain.
Made from a hard copy we own, for one reader. Not to be passed on or
linked to.
Recordings, where a poem has one, are public-domain readings from
LibriVox and elsewhere, and some are read by Darryl Sterk.