that influenced my early teaching in 1972-75.
(this 1963 book I studied in my first u year, 1967-68, had a significant influence on me with its beautiful photos by Rollie McKenna and several poems by each of the major poets of the day including Auden, Cummings, Eliot, Frost, Stevens, and Thomas.)
(a nicely done 1969 classic I found in a bookshop just before I started teaching in 1972. Nicely organized by Goldstein as you can see below with many classics. I was particularly impressed by the inclusion of “Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands”, “Suzanne”, “Eight Miles High”, “White Rabbit”, “Desolation Row”, “Penny Lane”, “A Whiter Shade of Pale”, “Dress Rehearsal Rag”, “A Day in the Life”, “Subterranean Homesick Blues”, “Crucifixion”, “The Sound of Silence”, and “Horse Latitudes”. I was so impressed that I offered a grade 11 option in ’73-’74 called The Poetry of Folk anchored by the likes of Dylan, Simon, Lightfoot, Mitchell, and others. The kids were knocked out by the Dylan songs.)
( a 1968 book of ‘popular’/’relevant’ American and English poetry I used in my first English 13–for general and nonacademic students. Many fine works including “Five Ways to Kill a Man”–Edwin Brock, “The Man Who Finds that His Son Has Become a Thief”–Raymond Souster, “The Unknown Citizen”–W.H. Auden, “Dulce et Decorum Est”–Wilfred Owen, “Snake”–D.H. Lawrence)
(a 1964 reprinted collection sold on the newsstand which I used for the gr. 11 Lit 21 option. It had many classics and old favorites including “Ulysses”, “Ex-Basketball Player”, “My Last Duchess”, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”, and Coleridge’s long “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” which I read aloud to the class in ’73-’74.)