The World’s Best Poetry

The World's Best Poetry Sorrow and Consolation is a curated selection of some of the most touching and insightful poems on the subjects of grief, loss, and comfort. Edited by Bliss Carman and first published in 1904, the book includes works by the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Tennyson, and Emily Dickinson. Carman's introduction provides helpful context and reflection, while his own contribution of new poems on the same themes show his own sensitivity to the power of poetry to articulate our deepest emotions.

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