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More copies of this ISBNImmortal Poems of the English Language: An Anthologyby Oscar Williams
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Immortal Poems
Here is the most inclusive anthology of verse ever published at so low a price. It contains not only the best-known works of the British and American masters but also the verse of the most brillant poets of our own day. Oscar Williams, who compiled Immortal Poems, was a distinguished editor and poet in his own right, of whom Robert Lowell wrote in the Sewanee Review: "Mr. Williams is probably the best anthologist in America today." Synopsis:Collection which includes not only the best-known works of the British and American masters but also the verse of the most brilliant poets of our own day.
About the AuthorOscar Williams (1900-1964), editor of this book, was himself a distinguished poet. The author of five books of poetry, including That's All That Matters and Selected Poems, he has been called "clever, disconcerting, rash" (Lionel Abel) and "a very real and important poet...(whose) powerful imagery and unique personal idiom will add a permanent page to American poetry" (Dylan Thomas).
Mr. Williams achieved literary distinction not only as a highly original and vigorous American poet, but also as one of the great poetry anthologists of his time. His most outstanding anthologies are "The Little Treasury Series," The War Poets, Immortal Poems of the English Language, The Pocket Book of Modern Verse and The New Pocket Anthology of American Verse, the latter three published by Pocket Books. These are accepted as present-day classics in their fields and are in wide use in colleges and universities. Other anthologies include a revised edition of Palgrave's The Golden Treasury, The Major British Poets, The Major American Poets, and The Silver Treasury of Light Verse. Mr. Williams' last and most ambitious anthology was Master Poems of the English Language, now also published by Pocket Books. A huge work of over 1100 pages, illustrated with portraits of the poets and combining a comprehensive anthology with a broad sampling of critical writing, it is a superb contribution by the man Robert Lowell called "probably the best anthologist in America." Table of ContentsCONTENTS
Geoffrey Chaucer John Skelton Anonymous: Songs & Ballads Sir Thomas Wyatt Sir Philip Sidney Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Edward Dyer Edmund Spenser George Peele Samuel Daniel Michael Drayton Christopher Marlowe William Shakespeare Thomas Nashe Thomas Campion Ben Jonson John Donne John Webster Robert Herrick George Herbert James Shirley Thomas Carew Edmund Waller John Milton Sir John Suckling William Cartwright Richard Crashaw Richard Lovelace Abraham Cowley Andrew Marvell Henry Vaughan John Dryden Thomas Traherne William Douglas George Berkeley John Gay Alexander Pope William Oldys Thomas Gray William Collins Christopher Smart Oliver Goldsmith William Cowper Thomas Chatterton William Blake Robert Burns William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas Campbell Walter Savage Landor Thomas Moore Leigh Hunt George Gordon, Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley William Cullen Bryant John Keats Thomas Hood Ralph Waldo Emerson Thomas Lovell Beddoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning John Greenleaf Whittier Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Edward FitzGerald Edgar Allan Poe Alfred, Lord Tennyson Oliver Wendell Holmes Robert Browning Edward Lear Emily Brontë James Russell Lowell Herman Melville Walt Whitman Charles Kingsley Arthur Hugh Clough Julia Ward Howe Matthew Arnold Dante Gabriel Rossetti George Meredith Christina Rossetti Emily Dickinson Lewis Carroll (C. L. Dodgson) Sir W. S. Gilbert Algernon Charles Swinburne Thomas Hardy Sidney Lanier Gerard Manley Hopkins Robert Bridges William Ernest Henley Francis Thompson John Davidson A. E. Housman George Santayana William Butler Yeats Rudyard Kipling Ernest Dowson Edgar Lee Masters Edwin Arlington Robinson W. H. Davies Walter De La Mare Robert Frost John Masefield Sarah N. Cleghorn Carl Sandburg Harold Monro Vachel Lindsay Wallace Stevens William Carlos Williams Elinor Wylie D. H. Lawrence Ezra Pound Rupert Brooke Robinson Jeffers Edwin Muir Marianne Moore Thomas Stearns Eliot John Crowe Ransom Conrad Aiken Edna St. Vincent Millay John Peale Bishop Archibald MacLeish Wilfred Owen E. E. Cummings Robert Graves F. R. Higgins Allen Tate Hart Crane Oscar Williams Ogden Nash C. Day Lewis Richard Eberhart Peter Quennell Esther Mathews William Empson Vernon Watkins W. H. Auden Louis MacNeice Stephen Spender Alfred Hayes W. R. Rodgers Elizabeth Bishop Lawrence Durrell F. T. Prince Delmore Schwartz Karl Shapiro George Barker Henry Reed John Manifold Robert Lowell Gene Derwood Dylan Thomas Index of First Lines Index of Authors and Titles What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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