Book Description
Two hundred and twenty-five of the greatest and most popular works by English-language poets from Shakespeare to Sandburg appear in this valuable reference book, arranged chronologically.


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Two hundred and twenty-five of the greatest and most popular works by English-language poets from Shakespeare to Sandburg appear in this valuable reference book, arranged chronologically.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Half Hours with the Best Poets collects more than 220 essential poems by the greatest writers of the English language from the last five hundred years. Included are such important sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poems as Shakespeare's "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds," John Donne's "Death, Be Not Proud," and Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress." Among the eighteenth-century selections are Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" and Robert Burn's "To a Mouse." From the early-nineteenth-century English Romantic movement are such celebrated poems as William Blake's "The Tyger," William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud."