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Collins Canterbury Classics
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An anthology of English poetry which includes poets of previous centuries such as Shakespeare, Milton, Shelley, Wordsworth, Keats alongside major figures of the present century such as Yeats, Eliot, and Auden.
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LibraryThing member lizzy_bb
Contains "Love's Farewell", which has my favourite opening lines of just about any poem:
"Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part
Nay, I have done, you get no more of me;"
"Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part
Nay, I have done, you get no more of me;"
LibraryThing member osunale
This is a superb anthology. Palgrave's selection is fantastic; this volume contains several of my favorite poems and many great ones that I'd not encountered before reading this book. The arrangement is also wonderful, and allowed this to become the only anthology of poetry that I have actually sat
My copy has additional poems through the 1920's. Unfortunately, the editors of this section are not nearly as discriminating as is Palgrave, and I'd hardly consider this section to contain only the "best" of the period, or even to offer a good representation of the best works.
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and read cover-to-cover in the designated order.My copy has additional poems through the 1920's. Unfortunately, the editors of this section are not nearly as discriminating as is Palgrave, and I'd hardly consider this section to contain only the "best" of the period, or even to offer a good representation of the best works.
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LibraryThing member jarvenpa
My own copy is a well worn red hardcover published in the 1940's, bearing my first scribbles over the drawings. It is the first book I remember in my life, hence the nostalgic 5 star rating. I drew in it as a toddler and haltingly made out words as I learned them (I was a freakishly early reader,
As a 10 year old I memorized most of my favorites, and as a 13 year old treated my mirror to dramatic recitations of the longer, more poignant poems. And I made the book an oracle of love, choosing poems by random number to determine if the freckled face kid who was still shorter than I returned my great passion. Since lots of the poems have to do with love, well, sure he did.
It was good training for a poet, if peculiar, and I'd gladly place Palgrave in the library of any home with curious, quirky, poets to be growing up in it.
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words seemed my natural place on this earth and gave me great solace. It was therefore a shock to find myself in postwar Japan at age 6, unable to even understand what the symbols..apparently letters...were).As a 10 year old I memorized most of my favorites, and as a 13 year old treated my mirror to dramatic recitations of the longer, more poignant poems. And I made the book an oracle of love, choosing poems by random number to determine if the freckled face kid who was still shorter than I returned my great passion. Since lots of the poems have to do with love, well, sure he did.
It was good training for a poet, if peculiar, and I'd gladly place Palgrave in the library of any home with curious, quirky, poets to be growing up in it.
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LibraryThing member chibitika
English poetry from the 1500's through the 1800's. Dedicated to Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland from 1850-1892. It has end notes with lots of extra information, an index of writers, an index of poems, and an index of first lines. A few of the black and white line
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drawings are ever so slightly art deco, all are superb. The poems cover all themes. This is a very nice little volume. Show Less
LibraryThing member PollyMoore3
An updated version including some more modern poems. Among many favourites, it includes Ben Jonson's “Hymn to Diana”, one of the most perfect lyrics in the English language (you can recite it to the moon, and I have been known to), and “It is not growing like a tree”.
LibraryThing member NickDuberley
My favourite Poetry anthology.
It's been through many editions. I had the Oxford World's Classics one when I was a teenager, and later on the Everyman one - rather easier on the eyes.
If you are only going to buy one poetry book, this is the one to get.
It's been through many editions. I had the Oxford World's Classics one when I was a teenager, and later on the Everyman one - rather easier on the eyes.
If you are only going to buy one poetry book, this is the one to get.
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1861
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