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Title: Six Centuries of Great Poetry : A Stunning Collection of Classic British Poems from Chaucer to Yeats by Albert Erskine, Robert Penn Warren ISBN: 0-440-21383-5 Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: 03 October, 1992 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A stromng introduction to "classic" poetry
Comment: This book should be in the collection of every person that desires to write poetry. Study it from cover-to-cover before beginning your own writing. I especially like the way it is arranged "historically" - chronologically - so you can more easily understand the changes that occurred during the English history of poetry.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Poetry at a Great Price
Comment: This is an excellent collection of British poetry, and all for the price of a paperback novel. A relatively large selection of poets are represented, focusing mostly on the Elizabethan poets up to the nineteenth century, wisely leaving most of the modern stuff out. Not only are the classic poets like Shakespeare, Herrick, Milton, and Wordsworth present, but also some of the more often overlooked poets such as Emily Bronte, Henry King, and Sir Walter Raleigh. If you are a lover of poetry you probably already own a larger collection of poetry and don't need a relatively small volume like this one. If, however, you are only just discovering the beauty of poetry, this is a worthwhile purchase. "Immortal Poems of the English Language" is also excellent for new poetry lovers. I just wish more people loved this beautiful and uniquely human form of emotional expression.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Bargain
Comment: You'll find all of these poems elsewhere... in thick, expensive volumes. You know who to expect here, and, depending on your knowledge of poetry, might be, as I was, pleasantly surprised and introduced to unfamiliar poets. Buy this book because you can. Read it because the poems are great.
One stop shopping for all your British poetry needs? Not quite. While that fellow Anonymous gets a few selections, as does his various collegagues and peers, consider this a sampler. A few selections from everyone. Yes, yes.. a 589 page sampler. That's the beauty of it.
I'm a Hopkins fans, and was pleased to see his best pieces. I expected those. New to me were Marston, Oldys, Googe, and a myriad of others. Now I am intrigued to read more of their work.
Portable, and easy to stuff in a coat or briefcase, you'll like the friendly size of the book. The poets are indexed by last name, but organized by chronology in the text itself. The typography is readable (not that teeny tiny stuff some publishers think is good for anthologies).
What more could you want?
I fully recommend this book.
Anthony Trendl
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Title: The Age of Reform 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe by Steven Ozment, Stephen Ozment ISBN: 0300027605 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 1986 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd, Simon Trussler ISBN: 1854593773 Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert Louis Wilken ISBN: 0300098391 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Adam, Eve, and the Serpent by Elaine Pagels ISBN: 0679722327 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 19 September, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets by Willis Barnstone ISBN: 0805208313 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 23 November, 1988 List Price(USD): $18.15 |
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