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Poetry for Young People Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Poetry for Young People books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Poetry for Young People series? Start with "Walt Whitman" (1977) and follow publication order through all 38 books.
The complete Poetry for Young People reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Walt Whitman
1977
Robert Frost (By: Robert Frost)
1994
Emily Dickinson (By: Emily Dickinson)
1994
Edgar Allan Poe (By: Edgar Allan Poe)
1995
Carl Sandburg (By: Carl Sandburg)
1995
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
1998
Edna St. Vincent Millay (By: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
1999
Robert Louis Stevenson (By: Robert Louis Stevenson)
2000
William Shakespeare (By: William Shakespeare)
2000
Lewis Carroll (By: Lewis Carroll)
2000
Rudyard Kipling (By: Rudyard Kipling)
2000
Edward Lear (By: Edward Lear)
2001
American Poetry (By: John Hollander)
2002
William Butler Yeats (By: W.B. Yeats)
2002
Robert Browning (By: Robert Browning)
2003
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
2003
William Wordsworth (By: William Wordsworth)
2003
Alfred Tennyson (By: Alfred Tennyson)
2003
William Carlos Williams (By: William Carlos Williams)
2003
Animal Poems (By: John Hollander)
2004
Wallace Stevens (By: Wallace Stevens)
2004
The Seasons (By: John N. Serio)
2004
Langston Hughes (By: Langston Hughes)
2006
William Blake (By: William Blake)
2007
Poetry for Young People (By: Maya Angelou)
2007
Poetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg (By: Carl Sandburg)
2008
African American Poetry (By: Karen Barbour)
2013
Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman
2017
The Children's Hour: Leaders and Heroes
1954
Prose and Poetry of the American West
1991
Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology
1993
Poetry Out Loud
1993
100 Best-Loved Poems
1995
Earth-Shattering Poems
1998
Writing New York
1998
A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology
2002
The Little Big Book of California
2005
Writers: Their Lives and Works
2018
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