As an experiment, and wondering what I would come up with, I've drawn
up my own list of :
10 Best Poetry Books
The Cantos by Ezra Pound (New Directions 1972)
Ezra Pound Collected Poems (American Library ed, has everything but the Cantos)
Complete Poems and Plays 1909 -1950 by T. S. Eliot
The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats (ed. Alt and Alspach)
The Poetry of Robert Frost (ed. Lathem 1975)
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (1981)
The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams 1909-1962
H. D. Collected Poems 1912-1944
Robert Graves New Collected Poems 1977
Philip Larkin Collected Poems (ed. Thwaite 1989)
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Notes:
1) Since this posting has notes it gets to be taken seriously.
2) The list covers English language poetry since 1900 and excludes
anthologies, which are worth while but deserve their own list
(provided on request.)
3) The Williams is two volumes but may be counted as one since it's my list.
4) Yes I know there's poetry after Larkin but it's a bunch of junk.
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