Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include:
"Strong Men Riding Horses" by Gwendolyn Brooks "Tears, Idle Tears" by Alfred Lord Tennyson "This Is My Letter to the World" by Emily Dickinson "Toads" by Philip Larkin "The Tropics in New York" by Claude McKay "When I Was One and Twenty" by A. E. Houseman And more