The Penguin Book of English Verse 9781101490648, 9780141941875, 0141941871, 1101490640

This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems acco

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English Pages xliv, 1140 pages Year 2004

The Penguin Book of English Verse
9781101490648, 9780141941875, 0141941871, 1101490640

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This is the first integrative, historically grounded book to be written about the Exeter Book of Old English poetry. By

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This book presents the core tradition of English folk song, as reflected in the major and minor collections compiled fro

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This leaf; so complete in itself; Is only part of a tree. And this tree; so complete in itself; Is only part of the moun

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This leaf; so complete in itself; Is only part of a tree. And this tree; so complete in itself; Is only part of the moun

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An anthology of poetry that covers the widest range of children's verse from classic, haunting, humorous, epic and

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"Whether romantic, realistic, surreal, mocking or blackly comic, poetry has been at the heart of Russian life and c

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From the RHS comes this celebration of the garden, spanning the centuries and the globe. From the Garden of Eden to smal

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The debts that English poetry owes to the Classics are massive and various. But they have been richly repaid by the asto

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