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Oxford Classics: Poetry - A Treasury of English-Language Verse from Medieval Ballads to Modern Symbolist Meditations - cover

Oxford Classics: Poetry - A Treasury of English-Language Verse from Medieval Ballads to Modern Symbolist Meditations

Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Emily Brontë, Walt Whitman, SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, Alexander Pope, ANDREW LANG, Christopher Marlowe, OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Robert Burns, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Meredith, Robert Browning, Thomas Love Peacock, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Wordsworth, Walter Scott, William Butler Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, William Blake, Alfred Tennyson, Edmund Spenser, Geoffrey Chaucer, Gilbert Parker, T. W. Rolleston, Sir Thomas Wyatt, John Milton, GEORGE MACDONALD

Publisher: e-artnow

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Oxford Classics: Poetry surveys the capacious traditions of English-language verse, moving from medieval narrative and Renaissance lyric to Romantic vision, Victorian meditation, and transatlantic modernity. Its range encompasses sonnet, ballad, ode, dramatic monologue, pastoral, gothic reverie, patriotic song, and expansive free verse. Canonical achievements stand beside evocative shorter works, allowing Shakespearean lyric, Chaucerian storytelling, Romantic imagination, and Whitman's democratic cadences to illuminate poetry's changing forms and public purposes. The contributors collectively trace a literary history shaped by courtly culture, Reformation and Renaissance humanism, Augustan satire, Romanticism, Victorian aesthetic and social debate, Celtic revivalism, imperial encounter, and American self-fashioning. Voices associated with Scotland, Ireland, England, and the United States enlarge the volume's cultural map, while women poets and writers of markedly different temperaments complicate any single account of tradition. Across centuries, these poets test inherited meters and genres against questions of love, mortality, nature, nation, faith, artistic vocation, and individual liberty. Recommended for students and general readers alike, this anthology offers an unusually concentrated opportunity to compare styles, eras, and poetic philosophies within one volume. Its educational value lies not merely in its canon of memorable poems, but in the dialogue it creates among divergent voices: formal and experimental, intimate and public, visionary and satirical. Readers will find a rich foundation for studying poetic craft and literary history.
Available since: 11/09/2022.
Print length: 3089 pages.

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