Get Your Premium Membership

Famous Anthologies Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Anthologies poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous anthologies poems. These examples illustrate what a famous anthologies poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

See also:

by Tebb, Barry
...g through your books

With their worn covers,

Remarking the paucity

Of recent borrowings

And the ommisions

From the anthologies.

“I’m a bit out of fashion

But still bringing out books

Armitage didn’t put me in at all

The egregarious Silkin

Tried to get off with my wife -

May he rest in peace.





I can’t remember what angered me

About Geoffrey Hill, quite funny

In a nervous, melancholic way,

A mask you wouldn’t get behind.



Harrison and I were clos...Read more of this...



by Tebb, Barry
...and slapped a New Gen face or two

And kicked some arses in painful places,

And so like you, got omitted from the posh anthologies

Where Penguin and Picador fill the pages

With the boring poetasters you went for in your rages,

Ex-friends like Harrison who missed you out.

You never could see the envy in their enmity.

Longley was the worst, a hypocrite to boot,

All you said about him never did come out;

I’ve tried myself to nail others of that ilk

Hither and th...Read more of this...

Dont forget to view our wonderful member Anthologies poems.


Book: Reflection on the Important Things