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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... Sense▸ ( lines 883-909 ) ' And as a pebble cast into a spring , We see a sort of trembling circles rise , One forming other in their issuing , Till over all the fount they circulize ; So this perpetual - motion - making kiss Is ...
... Sense▸ ( lines 883-909 ) ' And as a pebble cast into a spring , We see a sort of trembling circles rise , One forming other in their issuing , Till over all the fount they circulize ; So this perpetual - motion - making kiss Is ...
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... sense truth oft miscarries : Yet who this language to the people speaks , Opinion's empire , sense's idol breaks . CAELICA : LXXXVI The earth , with thunder torn , with fire blasted , With waters drowned , with windy palsy shaken Cannot ...
... sense truth oft miscarries : Yet who this language to the people speaks , Opinion's empire , sense's idol breaks . CAELICA : LXXXVI The earth , with thunder torn , with fire blasted , With waters drowned , with windy palsy shaken Cannot ...
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... senses yielded . Gladly my senses yielding Thus to betray my heart's fort Left me devoid of all life . They to the ... sense ; Yet do we both live in you ; Turned anew by your means Unto the flower that aye turns , As you , alas , my ...
... senses yielded . Gladly my senses yielding Thus to betray my heart's fort Left me devoid of all life . They to the ... sense ; Yet do we both live in you ; Turned anew by your means Unto the flower that aye turns , As you , alas , my ...
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The Oviparous Tailor | 15 |
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