Poetry in English: An Anthology

By Macha Louis Rosenthal

Book Overview

This authoritative, handsomely designed anthology of poetry from the Anglo-Saxon to the contemporary stresses major figures without neglecting minor ones of quality. Meant for survey and genre courses... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195405706
• ISBN13: 9780195405705
• Release Date: April 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 1236 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1"

Customer Reviews

A Library Basic for Anyone Who Loves English Literature

This excellent collection spans from the Middle English ballads to the mid nineteen-eighties, though it is does cover the eighteenth, nineteenth, and first half of the twentieth century most thoroughly. It also is very well footnoted, and these notes helped me to gain a deeper understanding of some of my favorites. I bought it for The Second Coming by Yeats, September 1, 1939 by Auden, Ozymandias by Shelley and Dulce Et Decorum Est by Owens, and it contains all of these. But it also offers so much more. It is my intention to read a poem a day until I cover the whole book.

Excellent all- around introduction..

This anthology is an excellent all- around introduction to English poetry produced by a great scholar and appreciator of poetry.