The Oxford anthology of great English poetry

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The Oxford anthology of great English poetry

chosen and edited by John Wain

Oxford University Press, 1996

  • v. 1
  • v. 2

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The Oxford library of English poetry

The Oxford anthology of English poetry

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Oxford library of English poetry

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v. 1. Spenser to Crabbe. -- v. 2. Blake to Heaney

First published 1986 in 3 vols. and entitled: The Oxford library of English poetry

First issued 1900 in 2 vols. as an Oxford University Press paperback entitled: The Oxford anthology of English poetry

Includes index

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Description

This two-volume anthology celebrates four centuries of English poetry from the Elizabethan era to the present day. Within the first volume are the Elizabethan poets (Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare), the Metaphysical poets (Donne, Herbert, Marvell), and many other famous figures of the 17th and 18th centuries including Milton, Swift, Pope, and Gray. The second volume begins with William Blake and includes many of the Romantic poets (Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, Shelley, Coleridge), and gives a survey of 19th-century verse including that of Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with poets from the 20th century being represented by poets such as Graves, Betjeman, Larkin, Hughes, and Heaney. The anthology also offers a varied sampling from the less well-known poets who have often provided startling exceptions to the poetry of their age. The richness and variety of the English poetic tradition are represented in this leather bound edition by all the great and familiar names resulting in a testament to the depth, diversity and energy of poetry written in Britain and Ireland.

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  • NCID
    BA29055278
  • ISBN
    • 0192100149
    • 0192100149
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Oxford ; New York ; Tokyo
  • Pages/Volumes
    2 v.
  • Size
    23 cm
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