Poetry Genre Definition – What’s the best definition for the poetry genre? Books in the poetry genre contain words that follow a rhythm or structure, and sometimes rhyme, that are designed on evoke emotion and thought. Books can be, but aren’t often written entirely in poetic form. Pilgrim’s Progress and works by Dante are some of the best known works of book length poetry. Other popular books in the poetry genre are known as “chap books” and are collections of small poems.
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Poetry Genre Definition – Examples
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1. 100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings
2. Ariel by Sylvia Plath
3. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Unknown
4. Falling Up by Shel Silverstein
5. Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
6. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
7. Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
8. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
9. Paradise Lost by John Milton
10. Shakespeare’s Sonnets by William Shakespeare
11. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
12. The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
13. The Collected Poems by W.B. Yeats
14. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
15. The Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson
16. The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
17. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
18. The Iliad by Homer
19. The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost
20. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
21. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
22. The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
23. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
24. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
25. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
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