The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost

by Harold Bloom

Hardcover, 2004

Status

Available

Description

A collection of key works of English language poetry encompasses works that have been written over the course of six centuries and shares some of the selector's critical reflections from the past half century.

Publication

New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers (2004), 970 pages

Language

Original publication date

2004

ISBN

9780060540418

Barcode

14693

Contents

Art of reading poetry --
Geoffrey Chaucer --
William Dunbar --
Petrarchan poetry --
Sir Thomas Wyatt --
Sir Philip Sidney --
Edmund Spenser --
Sir Walter Raleigh --
Chidiock Tichborne --
Robert Southwell --
Christopher Marlowe --
Michael Drayton --
William Shakespeare --
Thomas Nashe --
Thomas Campion --
John Donne --
Ben Jonson --
Tom O'Bedlam --
John Cleveland --
James Shirley --
Robert Herrick --
Thomas Carew --
Richard Lovelace --
Sir John Suckling --
Edmund Waller --
Andrew Marvell --
George Herbert --
Richard Crashaw --
Henry Vaughan --
Thomas Traherne --
John Milton --
John Dryden --
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester --
Alexander Pope --
Samuel Johnson --
William Collins --
Thomas Gray --
Christopher Smart --
William Cowper --
Robert Burns --
William Blake --
William Wordsworth --Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
George Gordon, Lord Byron --
Percy Bysshe Shelley --
John Keats --
Walter Savage Landor --
John Clare --
John Darley --
Tomas Lovell Beddoes --
William Cullen Bryant --
Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
Edgar Allan Poe --
Jones Very --
Henry David Thoreau --
Julia Ward Howe --
Walt Whitman --
Herman Melville --
Emily Dickinson --
Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
Edward Fitzgerald --
Robert Browning --
Matthew Arnold --
Gerard Manley Hopkins --
Dante Gabriel Rossetti --
Christina Rossetti --
William Morris --
Algernon Charles Swinburne --
Emily Bronte --
Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
Edward Lear --
Lewis Carroll --
George Meredith --
Rudyard Kipling --
William Butler Yeats --
Lionel Johnson --
Ernest Dowson --
Thomas Hardy --
Robert Bridges --
D.H. Lawrence --
A.E. Housman --
Wilfred Owen --
Edward Thomas --
Isaac Rosenberg --
Edwin Arlington Robinson --
Stephen Crane --
Trumbull Stickney --
Robert Frost --
Wallace Stevens --
William Carlos Williams --
Ezra Pound --
Elinor Wylie --
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) --
Robinson Jeffers --
Marianne Moore --
T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot --
John Crowe Ransom --
Conrad Aiken --
Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Louise Bogan --
John Brooks Wheelwright --
Leonie Adams --
Allen Tate --
Hart Crane.
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