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Uniquely comprehensive...highly readable...the definitive collection of classic lyric poetry.

From Shakespeare's wise music to Marvell's profundity and wit...from the Romantics' passionate view of man and woman and nature to twentieth-centur poets' confused searching, this outstanding one-volume collection brings us the profound, soul-nourishing experience of great poetry.

Brilliantly selected and arranged by renowned literary masters Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine, the poems here reflect the genius of six centuries of poets.  It is the finest anthology of lyric poetry ever published.

'Truth' by Geoffrey Chaucer
'Ophelia's Song' by William Shakespeare
'The Canonization' by John Donne
'To Heaven' by Ben Jonson
'Ode on Solitude' by Alexander Pope
'The Tyger' by William Blake
'The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth
'Ode to a Nightingale' by John Keats
'God's Grandeur' by Gerard Manley Hopkins
'Sailing to Byzantium' by William Butler Yeats

and more than ninety additional classic poems.

Six Centuries of Great Poetry

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      Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/10/1992
      ISBN13: 9780440213833, 978-0440213833
      ISBN10: 0440213835

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Uniquely comprehensive...highly readable...the definitive collection of classic lyric poetry.

      From Shakespeare's wise music to Marvell's profundity and wit...from the Romantics' passionate view of man and woman and nature to twentieth-centur poets' confused searching, this outstanding one-volume collection brings us the profound, soul-nourishing experience of great poetry.

      Brilliantly selected and arranged by renowned literary masters Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine, the poems here reflect the genius of six centuries of poets.  It is the finest anthology of lyric poetry ever published.

      'Truth' by Geoffrey Chaucer
      'Ophelia's Song' by William Shakespeare
      'The Canonization' by John Donne
      'To Heaven' by Ben Jonson
      'Ode on Solitude' by Alexander Pope
      'The Tyger' by William Blake
      'The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth
      'Ode to a Nightingale' by John Keats
      'God's Grandeur' by Gerard Manley Hopkins
      'Sailing to Byzantium' by William Butler Yeats

      and more than ninety additional classic poems.

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