I find this collection quite dense and serious. Well, I didn't expect it from the blurb.

But nevertheless, I feel this book would be quite helpful to poetry lovers and would get detailed views on various poets mentioned.

The contents discuss in details the works of William Wordsworth, John Keats, John Clare, Tennyson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Constantine Cavafy, Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas, Guillaume Apollinaire, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langton Hughes, Charlotte Mew, César Vallejo and many more poets.

Take your time. I did. And it's really insightful how the author discussed some poetry worth reading.

Thanks NetGalley for the ARC.

100 Poems to Break Your Heart was not what I expected. It was more like analysis and stories of poems. It reads more like nonfiction rather than poetry. This wasn't bad but not what I expected. It does touch on some important books. Thank you to Netgalley and to the publisher for the advanced copy.

This book has an interesting premise that excites me a lot back then. I can see the appeal of this for those who are yet to start reading poetry and want to practice how to analyze or extract meaning from poems/prose. However, for someone who likes to have my own interpretation of a piece, I really didn't like this book. I felt like I'm being forced to have this take on these entries when I have another interpretation of it and that annoys me a lot. I don't think all poetry readers will like this book since it caters to a niche audience.

What a wonderful collection of amazing poems, many from sources new to me. I can see using several of these pieces in teaching and writing. What a wonderful anthology.

This collection really did break my heart. Love, loss, and the innumerable moments between them drip from the pages and Edward Hirsch's masterful collect. A truly infectious sadness that brought me to tears on more than one occasion.

This was not what I expected. This felt like more of a nonfiction than a poetry book. I didn’t like the layout.

Name: 100 Poems to Break Your Heart
Author: Edward Hirsch
Genre: Poetry, Love, Loss, Death, Longing
Rating: 4/5
Review:
This book is an anthology of heart touching poems of pain and loss by some of the most popular poets like Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Thomas Hardy, John Berrymen, Anne Sexton and many more. The author has done a critical analysis of each poetry and gives us an insight of the poet's mindset while writing the poem. This is a wonderful collection of poetry, which I loved to read. Each poetry is an amazing peice of work which leave us lost in thoughts.

This "100 Poems To Break Your Heart" was not the "poems" I was expecting. More like "stories" to Break Your Heart.

I'm dealing with a grief myself right now and I was really in the mood for some short poetry, but this was not what I wanted.

Maybe i'll read it when I'm ready to read all this sad stories, now is just not a right time.

Haven't ever really gotten into poetry, was hoping to use this as a jumping-off point. I really appreciated how the author broke down the poems to make them easier to understand. It's not a book for me, but I can see how others would enjoy it.