# best of the best poetry anthology

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**Created:** [July 12, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-best-poetry-anthology/588710 "2011-07-12T03:16:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-best-poetry-anthology/588710/1 "2011-07-12T03:16:55Z")

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please help me with my net search skills (or lack thereof)

I used to have a book of poems, that was the “best of the best” - the editor had searched anthologies of poems to find the ones that had been anthologised the most. I think about 500 poems in English.

came out in the early nineties, with a blue cover in paperback.

I’ve lost my copy and can’t find it online.

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**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-best-poetry-anthology/588710/2 "2011-07-12T03:32:51Z")

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Could you mean [The Norton Anthology of Poetry](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2864322-the-norton-anthology-of-poetry)? I have an older edition than the one shown in the link and it has kind of a plain dark blue cover.

…or possibly[this one](http://www.borders.com/online/store/TitleDetail?sku=023108028X) called The Top 500 Poems?

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-best-poetry-anthology/588710/3 "2011-07-12T13:13:23Z")

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> [@koeeoaddi](#):
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> …or possibly[this one](http://www.borders.com/online/store/TitleDetail?sku=023108028X) called The Top 500 Poems?

That’s it! thanks! I was googling "Best of " variations. Now I remember that the complier uses that phrase in his intro, not in the title.