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:
"More Light! More Light!" by Anthony Hecht "Onomatopoeia" by Eve Merriam "Piano" by D.H. Lawrence "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket" by Robert Lowell "Queen-Ann's-Lace" by William Carlos Williams "Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes And more