Ideal Bookshelf 668: Poetry

I have been meaning to paint a shelf full of poetry for years, but to give you an idea of how much I know about poetry, the only poems I can recite are those from Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends, which I memorized in 5th grade ("Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout / would not take the garbage out...". So for this print I enlisted the expert help of Erik Heywood, owner of the amazing Book/Shop rare book store in Oakland, California. The collections he picked are both perfect and really lovely together. I've now added each and every one of them to my ever-expanding BOOKS I MUST READ list. First offered in December 2013 Archival pigment ink print on fine art paper Based on an original painting by Jane Mount   BOOKS INCLUDED: Collected Lyrics by Edna St. Vincent Millay Complete Poems 1904-1962 by E.E. Cummings Selected Poems by Laurie Lee The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke by Rupert Brooke Collected Poems by Stéphane Mallarmé The Poems of W.B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats William Wordsworth: An Illustrated Selection by J. Wordsworth The Selected Poetry of Lord Byron by  Lord George G. Byron Collected Poems by W. H. Auden The New Oxford Book of English Verse by Helen Gardner Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot