Poetry, Comics: A Cartoonverse of Poems

The book you wish you’d had for O-Level English.

Dave Morice’s Poetry Comics offers literary mavens and schoolchildren alike a look at the canon in a new and hilarious light. This anthology brings together the best hits from Morice’s two previous cartoon compendiums with such recent animations as Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, John Ashbery’s “Some Trees,” and Marianne Moore’s “Poetry.” Other comics in the book include William Shakespeare’s The Tempest; Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess”; Emily Dickinson’s “Poem 303”; Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass; Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred, Ezra Pound’s “In a Station at the Metro”; and Allen Ginsberg’s Howl.