"This completely fresh selection brings in new poems and poets from all ages, and extends the range by another half-century, to include many twentieth-century figures not featured before...right up to Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney."--Publisher. Includes work by Edmund Spenser, John Milton, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, William Butler Yeats, T S Eliot, W H Auden, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney and others.