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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... voice . Doll ev'ry day had walk'd these treach'rous roads ; Her neck grew warpt beneath autumnal loads Of various fruit ; she now a basket bore , That head , alas ! shall basket bear no more . Each booth she frequent past , in quest of ...
... voice . Doll ev'ry day had walk'd these treach'rous roads ; Her neck grew warpt beneath autumnal loads Of various fruit ; she now a basket bore , That head , alas ! shall basket bear no more . Each booth she frequent past , in quest of ...
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... voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found ? In reason's ear they all rejoice , And utter forth a glorious voice , For ever singing , as they shine , ' The hand that made us is Divine ' . From The Poetical Works , 1750 . FIVE ...
... voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found ? In reason's ear they all rejoice , And utter forth a glorious voice , For ever singing , as they shine , ' The hand that made us is Divine ' . From The Poetical Works , 1750 . FIVE ...
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... voice of dead complaint , Groans scarcely audible . Without self - blame I had not thus prolonged my watch ; and now , Subduing my heart's specious cowardise . I left the shady nook where I had stood , And hailed him . Slowly from his ...
... voice of dead complaint , Groans scarcely audible . Without self - blame I had not thus prolonged my watch ; and now , Subduing my heart's specious cowardise . I left the shady nook where I had stood , And hailed him . Slowly from his ...
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