The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry, Blake to Heaney. John Wain
Title: The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry, Blake to Heaney
Author/s: Chosen and Edited by John Wain
Condition: Well Read
Edition/Year: 1990
Publisher: Oxford
Pages: 770
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780192827982
Category: Nonfiction / Anthology / Poetry
About the Book:
The true poet, said W. H. Auden, is ‘like a valley cheese: local, but prized elsewhere’. This two volume anthology celebrates four centuries of English poetry, from the Elizabethan era to the present day. Representing this tradition of unfailing richness and variety are all the great and familiar names, but many of the less well known poets are here, too, often providing interesting exceptions to what has become the conventional view of the poetry of their age. The result is a rich and many coloured tapestry of the are that has been most successfully practiced in Britain and Ireland, in all its depth, diversity, and energy.
This volume includes: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Hardy, Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, Betjeman, Auden, Larking, Hughes, and Hearney.
