The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry: Volume II: Blake to Heaney
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (692 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0192827987 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 800 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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That's a perfectly good way to delimit the contents I've used this in a class. It's modestly priced and the selections are well-chosen. It's not annotated, but my students never complained about that. Do note: this is the Oxford Anthology of English Poetry, not Poetry in English. That's a perfectly good way to delimit the contents, but I do miss the Americans (who had a pretty good run last century). The Norton Anthology of Poetry (full and Shorter editions) is more comprehensive, and I'll probably use it again this spring; but it's also heavier and more t. Just a tad better than Volume I In an earlier review, I gave Vol. I of "The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry" three stars. This volume suffers from the same editorial defects as its predecessor: not a word about the authors' biographies or any historical information, no glossary, no introductory essay, and virtually no footnotes. As before, such things would have been very much appreciated, particularly for help rendering the archaic vernacular in several of the anthology's entries. However, this collection improves on Volume I in ter. Extremely Poor Anthology Construction This Anthology Volume II, a sequel to Volume I, is an affront to the literary.This text is a work waiting to be finished. Not one single word about authors, nor about historical information, and not even a glossary or a single footnote.This Anthology is a lame sister publication, and offers no scholarly value.Oxford University Press needs to tighten up its standards with the likes of John Wain on their staff who has produced a most disapponting book.How did John Wain manage to get his work into print with
About the Editor:John Wain is a writer who has published some twenty-five books in the past twenty-five years, including various anthologies and many critical studies of poetry.
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The progression from the "metaphysical" school (poets such as Donne and Marvell), the Augustans (Dryden and Pope), the Romantics such as Keats and Wordsworth, the Victorians such as Tennyson and Browning, and the First World War poets such as Sassoon and W.H.Auden, right up to Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and other poets actively writing today, represents a tradition which continues to develop. This volume covers: Blake, Burns, Wordsworth, Scott, Southey, Lamb, Landor, Peacock, Byron, Shelley, Clare, Keats, Coleridge, Hood, Macauley, Barrett-Browning, Tennyson, Thackeray, Lear, Browning, Bronte, Clough, Kingsley, Arnold, Meredith, Rossetti, Carroll, Morris, Swinburne, Hardy, Hopkins, Bridges, Stevenson, Wilde, Housman, Kipling, Yeats, Belloc, De La Mare, Chesterton, Masefield, Lawrence, Sassoon, Eliot, Rosenberg, Macdiarmid, Owen, Jones, Graves, Campbell, Smith, Orwell, Betjeman, MacNiece, Auden, Spender, Durrell, Thomas, Larkin, Jennings, Gunn, Hughes, Levi, Stevenson, and Heaney.. All the major poets, and many of the less-well know, are featured in John Wain's selection. This two-volume anthology celebrates four centuries of verse in English, from the Elizabethan era to the present day. Volume 1 covers: Spenser, Raleigh, Lyly, Sidney, Greville, Lodge, Peele, Bacon, Daniel, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Dekker, Fletcher, Beaumont, Webster, Herbert, Herrick, Carew, Waller, Milton, Butler, Denham, Cowley,