![]() ![]() ![]() Here, as before, are lyric (beginning with medieval song), satire, hymn, ode, sonnet, elegy, ballad. ![]() This completely fresh selectionīrings 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 - among them Philip Larkin and Samuel Beckett, Thom Gunn and Elaine Feinstein - right up to Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. ![]() The Oxford Book of English Verse, created in 1900 by Arthur Quiller-Couch and selected anew in 1972 by Helen Gardner, has established itself as the foremost anthology of English poetry: ample in span, liberal in the kinds of poetry presented. Here is a treasure-house of over seven centuries of English poetry, chosen and introduced by Christopher Ricks, whom Auden described as 'exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding'. Poems that are also translations are included. 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. ![]()
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