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THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE - CHRISTOPHER ...

With its fresh and glittering choice of the jewels of English poetry  Christopher Ricks's
Oxford Book of English Verse -- third in succession  after Arthur Quiller-Couch's original
volume (1900) and Helen Gardner's new selection (1972) -- is a treasury from more than seven
centuries of the poet's art. Ampler in range -- up to Hughes and Heaney -- it combines
celebrated poems with a wealth of newly-chosen works  giving us 'Sumer is icumen in' and Anna
Seward's 'Old Cat's Dying Soliloquy'  Keats's 'To Autumn' and Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin
Market'  Hugh MacDiarmid's 'O Wha's the Bride?'  Stevie Smith's 'Not Waving but Drowning' 
Larkin's 'Mr Bleaney'  and hundreds more. For the first time  wonderful poems that are also
translations are included  likewise nursery rhymes  clerihews  and the great dramatic verse of
Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Lyric  laughter  song  satire  story: this is an anthology
to move and delight all who find themselves loving English verse.

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