Rhyming Poems: A Contemporary Anthology

From ancient times to the present, poets have used the power of rhyme to enhance their poetry, and all the great poets in the English tradition -- from Chaucer to Wilbur -- have written in rhyme. Unfortunately, in the twentieth century, rhyme was generally dismissed by most of the vers libre writers, but the tradition was kept vigorously alive by our best poets: Yeats, Frost, Auden, Millay, Larkin, Nemerov, Wilbur, and many others. At the present time, as a result of the formalist revival of the past two decades, rhyme is reasserting its rightful place at the center of the English literary tradition. Rhyming Poems: A Contemporary Anthology is a unique collection of 100 contemporary poems that showcase the marvelous variety, power, and pleasure of rhyme.