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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Carl Woodring; James Shapiro |
ISBN: | 0231078382 9780231078382 |
OCLC Number: | 27431318 |
Description: | xi, 732 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Old English poetry / Roberta Frank -- Middle English poetry / E. Ruth Harvey -- Chaucer / George D. Enconomou -- Poetry in Scots : Barbour to Burns / David Daiches -- From ballads to Betjeman / Carl Woodring -- Printing and distribution of poetry / David McKitterick -- Varieties of sixteenth-century narrative poetry / Elizabeth Story Donno -- Sixteenth century lyric poetry / Richard McCoy -- Spenser, Sidney, Jonson / Paul Alpers -- Lyric poetry from Donne to Philips / Richard Strier -- Milton / Martin Elsky -- Dryden and Pope / Richard Feingold -- Poetry in the eighteenth century / Margaret Anne Doody -- Blake / Morton D. Paley -- Coleridge / Morton D. Paley -- Poetry, 1785-1832 / Jerome McGann -- Byron, Shelley, Keats / Susan M. Levin, Robert Ready -- Wordsworth and Tennyson / Jerome H. Buckley -- The Victorian era / David G. Riede -- Victorian religious poetry / Cary H. Plotkin -- Pre-Raphaelite poetry / Carole Silver -- The 1890s / Karl Beckson -- 1898-1945 : Hardy to Auden / George H. Gilpin -- Yeats, Lawrence, Eliot / Calvin Bedient -- Poetry in England, 1945-1990 / Vincent Sherry -- Poetry in Ireland, Scotland, and. |
Responsibility: | Carl Woodring, editor ; James Shapiro, associate editor. |
Abstract:
From Shakespeare's memorable sonnets to Keats's haunting odes to T.S. Eliot's mediations on the conditions of modern life, the collection contains many of the best-loved treasures of British poetry, enhanced by incisive introductions to the poets. Covering the new and the ancient, the classic and the rediscovered, this generous volume reimagines the horizons of British poetry.
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Among the countless anthologies of poetry, one always looks for a book in which both scholarship and taste contribute at the highest levels. For anyone who writes or reads poetry, or has the sensibility to be drawn to it, this is the book. -- James Dickey Superb... The ideal introduction to British poetry. -- Mark Strand Read more...
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