Advanced Poetry

Advanced Poetry builds on the foundation laid in Intermediate Poetry. This is a Great Books poetry course intended for use in high school. As with all our poetry books, Advanced Poetry reviews beginning poetry and can be used in classes with students who have no prior poetry experience. Students read in full the following great works: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Dante’s Inferno Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser Paradise Lost by Milton In addition, the students analyze and imitate selections from Shakespeare’s sonnets and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as well as poems from Poe, Coleridge, Taylor, and others. We recommend the Advanced Poetry Student Companion for use with this book. It is available as a free pdf or at-cost print book.