english poetry

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english poetry

Rough men, tough men

poems of action and adventure
1969
Over one hundred poems about rough and tough robbers, outlaws, cowboys, knights, buccaneers, soldiers, and other heroes and villains.

Human chain

2010
A collection of lyric poems by Seamus Heaney, a Nobel prize-winning Irish poet, featuring writing that reflects his early life, his literary accomplishments, and his family.

The discovery of poetry

a field guide to reading and writing poems
2001

Paradise lost

2003
Presents John Milton's epic poem, which chronicles man's fall from grace and Satan's rebellion against God, providing a scholarly introduction, chronology, bibliography, Andrew Marvell's verse tribute to Milton from the second edition, and explanatory notes.

The new Oxford book of Victorian verse

1990
Anthology of poems, most of them written and published during the reign of England's Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1901, including works by Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Lewis Carroll, and Emily Bronte.

Our life in poetry

selected essays and reviews
1991
Includes Rosenthal's major essays and reviews with a few of his personal comments.

The Facts On File companion to British poetry, 17th and 18th-centuries

2008
Contains more than four hundred entries on British poetry from 1600 to 1800, featuring poets such as John Milton, Ben Jonson, Aphra Behn, and Jonathan Swift, and includes a glossary of poetic terms, bibliographies, and cross-referencing.

Answering back

living poets reply to the poetry of the past
2008

The Facts on File companion to British poetry

1900 to the present
2009
Contains four hundred and fifty entries on British poetry from 1900 to the twenty-first century, which features poets such as Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, William Butler Yeats, and many others; discusses themes, topics, and movements; and includes a glossary of poetic terms, bibliographies, and cross-referencing.

The Norton anthology of poetry

2005
Presents a comprehensive anthology of over 1,000 poems by over 250 poets from around the world including Chaucer, Shakespeare, John Milton, Robert Burns, and William Wordsworth.

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