Poets on PoetsNick Rennison, Michael Schmidt To mark National Poetry, Day Nick Rennison, who compiled the Waterstone's Guide to Poetry, and Michael Schmidt, editorial director of Carcanet, invited a number of contemporary poets to select work by poets of the past, beginning in the late fourteenth century and ending in the early twentieth, and to provide brief headnotes to describe their choices. The result is an anthology with a difference. From Gower to Yeats, from the old and the new worlds, the selectors and the selected converge in a volume of wonderful poetry and rich surprise. Providing more than 450 pages of poetry and commentary in a handsome large two-column format, Poets on Poets celebrates vital continuities: the range of poets making selections and the range of poetry selected is without precedent in an English-language poetry anthology. Its aim is to encourage a wider readership of classic English poetry and to signal the generative connection between new poetry and the best of the past. |
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Page 89
... hope , my joy , My own dear Genevieve ! She leant against the armèd man . The statue of the armèd knight ; She stood and listened to my lay , Amid the lingering light . Few sorrows hath she of her own , My hope ! my joy ! my Genevieve ...
... hope , my joy , My own dear Genevieve ! She leant against the armèd man . The statue of the armèd knight ; She stood and listened to my lay , Amid the lingering light . Few sorrows hath she of her own , My hope ! my joy ! my Genevieve ...
Page 92
... HOPE All Nature seems at work . Slugs leave their lair - The bees are stirring - birds are on the wing - And Winter ... Hope draws nectar in a sieve , And Hope without an object cannot live . EPITAPH Stop , Christian passer - by ! - Stop ...
... HOPE All Nature seems at work . Slugs leave their lair - The bees are stirring - birds are on the wing - And Winter ... Hope draws nectar in a sieve , And Hope without an object cannot live . EPITAPH Stop , Christian passer - by ! - Stop ...
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... Hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy Power , which seems omnipotent ; To love , and bear ; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates ; Neither to change , nor falter ...
... Hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy Power , which seems omnipotent ; To love , and bear ; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates ; Neither to change , nor falter ...
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