Six Centuries of Great Poetry: A Stunning Collection of Classic British Poems from Chaucer to YeatsUniquely comprehensive...highly readable...the definitive collection of classic lyric poetry. From Shakespeare's wise music to Marvell's profundity and wit...from the Romantics' passionate view of man and woman and nature to twentieth-centur poets' confused searching, this outstanding one-volume collection brings us the profound, soul-nourishing experience of great poetry. Brilliantly selected and arranged by renowned literary masters Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine, the poems here reflect the genius of six centuries of poets. It is the finest anthology of lyric poetry ever published. "Truth" by Geoffrey Chaucer "Ophelia's Song" by William Shakespeare "The Canonization" by John Donne "To Heaven" by Ben Jonson "Ode on Solitude" by Alexander Pope "The Tyger" by William Blake "The Solitary Reaper" by William Wordsworth "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats "God's Grandeur" by Gerard Manley Hopkins "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats and more than ninety additional classic poems. |
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Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 6 |
Section 3 | 7 |
Section 4 | 44 |
Section 5 | 75 |
Section 6 | 107 |
Section 7 | 109 |
Section 8 | 187 |
Section 16 | 298 |
Section 17 | 302 |
Section 18 | 309 |
Section 19 | 320 |
Section 20 | 328 |
Section 21 | 330 |
Section 22 | 331 |
Section 23 | 352 |
Section 9 | 220 |
Section 10 | 252 |
Section 11 | 255 |
Section 12 | 270 |
Section 13 | 279 |
Section 14 | 288 |
Section 15 | 292 |
Section 24 | 376 |
Section 25 | 434 |
Section 26 | 474 |
Section 27 | 490 |
Section 28 | 533 |
Section 29 | 555 |
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Six Centuries of Great Poetry: A Stunning Collection of Classic British ... Robert Penn Warren,Albert Erskine No preview available - 1992 |
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