The Best Short Poems of the Nineteenth Century is a collection of 25 poems that were selected by a group of competent critics through a ballot in 1899. The author, William Sinclair Lord, has compiled these poems with the aim of presenting the best of the 19th century in a concise and accessible format. The poems included in the collection are from a wide range of poets, including Robert Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman,...