Alfred Prufrock”Įzra Pound, “ The River-Merchant’s Wife : a Letter”Įmily Dickinson, “ Because I could not stop for Death –” William Carlos Williams, “ The Red Wheelbarrow” The Most Anthologized Poems of the Last 25 Years: I’ve done my best, and marked places where there was obvious confusion.
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Since I didn’t always have access to the full anthology to check which poem-or which part of which poem-was actually included, some of the data here may be slightly soft.
I should also make clear that-unlike short stories, for the most part-poems, especially old poems, are often given different titles in different editions, and even oftener, certain lines from a longer poem are excerpted, to be notated in the table of contents however the editor of the anthology sees fit. In the below list, I have only included those poems that appeared three or more times across the 20 anthologies-there were many more that were represented twice, but one has to draw the line somewhere. I knew this already, of course, but now I know it with my whole body, from shriveled eyes to laptop-burned thighs to cramped feet. Poetry anthologies have way more entries in them than short story anthologies, and are sometimes thousands of pages long. Even so, the amount of data I wound up processing was enormous. I make no claim to having gotten to every anthology that fits those parameters, of course-consider this a representative sample. To figure it out, I used the same essential methodology as I did for the short stories: I looked at the tables of contents for 20 anthologies of poetry published between 19 (you can see the full list of anthologies I surveyed at the bottom of the page) and added them all up. My aim was to see what has been included in “general” poetry anthologies for English-speaking readers, so I looked at anthologies that collected international, American, and English-language poems, and I accepted all time periods, but did not allow for any segmentation or specialization otherwise. The results were useful, and one commenter on that post suggested that it would be interesting to do the same thing with poetry-I agreed, and set myself the task. Recently, I spent a few days searching through the contents of short fiction anthologies to figure out the most frequently anthologized short stories of the recent past.
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