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Everyone has their favorite genre of literature, be it lyrics, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or articles. The purpose of
this page is to give you an idea of some of the most important poems that should be read before you graduate college according
to the University of Central Oklahoma's English Department.
Ancient
- The Epic of Gilgamesh, Anonymous
- The Illiad, Anonymous
- The Odyssey, Anonymous
- Sappho
- The Aeneid, Virgil
- Metamorphosis, Ovid
Medieval
- Beowulf, Anonymous
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Anonymous
- Pearl, Anonymous
- Piers Plowman, Anonymous
- Rumi
- The Song of Roland, Anonymous
- The Divine Comedy, Dante
Renaissance
- Faerie Queene, Spenser
- William Shakespeare
- Phillip Sydney
- Petrarch
17th Century
- Paradise Lost, Milton
- John Donne
- Andrew Marvell
- George Herbert
- Henry Vaughn
- Anne Bradstreet
- Edward Taylor
- Phillis Wheatly
18th Century
- John Dryden
- Alexander Pope
- Jonathan Swift
- William Blake
19th Century
- William Wordsworth
- Samuel Coleridge
- Percy Bysshe Shelly
- Lord Byron
- John Keats
- Matthew Arnold
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Robert Browning
- Christina Rossetti
- Dante Rossetti
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Thomas Hardy
- Gerard Hopkins
- Emily Dickenson
- Paul Lawrence Dunbar
- Walt Whitman
- Baudelaire
- Rimbaud
20th Century
- Wallace Stevens
- Robert Frost
- W.C. Williams
- Theodore Roethke
- Ezra Pound
- Marianne Moore
- Langston Hughes
- Gewndolyn Brooks
- Sylvia Plath
- Adrianne Rich
- William Carlos Williams
- Allen Ginsberg
- William Butler Yeats
- A.E. Housman
- T.S. Eliot
- Dylan Thomas
- W.H. Auden
- Stevie Smith
- Charles Algernon Swinburne
The University of Central Oklahoma's English Department issued an unofficial reading list which was given to me in one
of my classes. All of the information in white I have obtained from this list. It is by no means exhaustive and there are
always poems that one person likes more than any other. Feel free to explore poetry on your own and to create your own list...
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