 | Complete English Poems, of Education, Areopagitica (Everyman's Library (Paper)) by John Milton
Buy used from: $0.79 of course; this edition is a lot cheaper than the Hughes' 1957; practical.
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 | The Riverside Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer
Buy new: $91.44 / Used from: $69.95 i always liked the riverside editions; a little big, but plenty of notes and a glossary.
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 | The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition
Buy used from: $9.17 by far the best edition out there; easier to handle than the riverside, more notes, more texts(including fragments and conjectural poems); well worth it.
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 | Edmund Spenser's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions) by Edmund Spenser
Buy new: $16.20 / Used from: $8.23 not complete, but good enough; good notes, but mostly bad essays; and yes, Spenser is the fourth greatest english poet.
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 | Poems of Andrew Marvell (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Andrew Marvell
Buy used from: $9.33 the fifth greatest; had he not worked so hard, he might have challenged milton. the mower poems, coy mistress, the garden, cromwell poems, appleton house are immortal.
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 | The Complete English Poems (Everyman's Library) by John Donne
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $7.94 the contrast of the songs and holy sonnets with the same style is sublime; sixth greatest.
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 | The complete English poems of Thomas Gray (The Poetry bookshelf) by Thomas Gray
Buy used from: $49.99 read the man's letters also;
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 | Robert Browning's Poetry (Norton Critical Edition) by Robert Browning
Buy new: $20.60 / Used from: $0.01 a modest portion of his poems exemplify psychological monologues in a schockingly aesthetic style; eight greatest.
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 | The Poems of A. E. Housman (Oxford English Texts) by A. E. Housman
Buy new: $250.00 / Used from: $245.99 because i love "a shropshire lad," and no matter how limited his range and quantity, he was a great poet. don't buy this edition unless you're rich.
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 | The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by William Butler Yeats
Buy new: $13.85 / Used from: $5.94 i'm reluctant, since i hate his moon system, and he was not a christian, but the man deserves his due.
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