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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... look of Death - Kept beating - beating - till I thought My Mind was going numb - And then I heard them lift a Box And creak across my Soul With those same Boots of Lead , again , Then Space - began to toll , As all the Heavens were a ...
... look of Death - Kept beating - beating - till I thought My Mind was going numb - And then I heard them lift a Box And creak across my Soul With those same Boots of Lead , again , Then Space - began to toll , As all the Heavens were a ...
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... LOOK INTO MY GLASS ' I look into my glass , And view my wasting skin , And say , ' Would God it came to pass My heart had shrunk as thin ! ' For then , I , undistrest By hearts grown cold to me , Could lonely wait my endless rest With ...
... LOOK INTO MY GLASS ' I look into my glass , And view my wasting skin , And say , ' Would God it came to pass My heart had shrunk as thin ! ' For then , I , undistrest By hearts grown cold to me , Could lonely wait my endless rest With ...
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... look'd . I too many and many a time cross'd the river of old , Watched the Twelfth - month sea - gulls , saw them ... Look'd at the fine centrifugal spokes of light round the shape of my head in the sunlit water , Look'd on the haze on ...
... look'd . I too many and many a time cross'd the river of old , Watched the Twelfth - month sea - gulls , saw them ... Look'd at the fine centrifugal spokes of light round the shape of my head in the sunlit water , Look'd on the haze on ...
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