The first general history of English poetry to be published for many decades.
Ranges from Chaucer to the late 20th Century.
llustrated with portraits and filled with extended quotations.
Includes American poetry.
English Poetry: A New Illustrated History
This is the first general history of English poetry to be published for many years. It sets out to celebrate poetry as one of the great glories of English culture, and to describe clearly and sympathetically the lives of those who created it. The great ages of English poetry – Elizabethan, Augustan, Romantic, Victorian and Modernist are each evoked in turn, while the classics of American poetry receive a chapter of their own. Filled with perceptive criticism, alongside the main narrative there runs a discussion of the very nature of poetry, and how the spirit of poetry has changed over the centuries and yet somehow remained constant. Poetry has been defined as the music of ideas, and this book lucidly develops that theme, blending criticism with imagination. This book will be an invaluable resource for the student and a delight to all who care about poetry.
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