Author Description
Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, George Lyttelton, William Shenstone, Richard Graves, Thomas Gray, Francis Fawkes, Mark Akenside, William Collins, Christopher Smart, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Osbert Mordaunt, John Scott, William Cowper, John Wolcott, Augustus Montague Toplady, Anne Hunter, Charles Dibdin, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Philip Freneau, George Crabbe, William Blake, Robert Burns, Samuel Rogers, Mary Lamb, Richard Alfred Millikin, William Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walter Savage Landor, Charles Lamb, Joseph Blanco White, Thomas Campbell, Thomas Moore, John Galt, James Henry Leigh Hunt, Thomas Love Peacock, George Gordon Lord Byron, Charles Wolfe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Clare, William Cullen Bryant, John Keats, George Darley, Hartley Coleridge, Thomas Hood, Derwent Coleridge, William Barnes, Sara Coleridge, James Clarence Mangan, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Stephen Hawker, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Charles Tennyson Turner, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Lear, Robert Browning, Jones Very, Thomas Westwood, Emily Brontë, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Meredith, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Richard Watson Dixon, William Morris, James Thomson, George Du Maurier, Samuel Butler, John Leicester Warren, Bret Harte, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, Sidney Lanier, Gerard Manley Hopkins, George T. Lanigan, W.E. Henley, A.E. Housman, Mary Coleridge, Archibald Lampman, W.B. Yeats, Ernest Dowson, E.A. Robinson, W.H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, Trumbull Stickney, Robert Frost, Edward Thomas, Wallace Stevens, Vachel Lindsay, James Stephens, J.E. Flecker, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, Andrew Young, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Edwin Muir, John Crowe Ransom, T.S. Eliot, Arthur Waley, Wilfred Owen, E.E. Cummings, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, Hart Crane. Norman Cam
Menrva's Summary
THE THESIS
This volume investigates the evolution of English-language verse by curating a comprehensive selection of significant poets from the 18th century through the early 20th century. Editor Ed Reeves James compiles a broad spectrum of poetic voices to illustrate the shifting stylistic and thematic concerns of the English-speaking world. The collection serves as a chronological survey, providing a reference framework for understanding the development of poetic forms and movements across two centuries.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- A chronological arrangement of poems spanning from the mid-18th century to the early 20th century.
- Representation of major literary movements including Romanticism, Victorianism, and early Modernism.
- A diverse selection of British and American poets, ranging from canonical figures to notable contemporaries of their respective eras.
Scope Limits
- The collection does not include contemporary poetry written after the early 20th century.
- The volume does not provide extensive critical analysis or biographical essays for each individual poet.
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Readers frequently note the breadth of this anthology as a useful resource for surveying the transition between classical and modern poetic traditions. Experts highlight the inclusion of both widely recognized masters and lesser-known contributors as a strength for those seeking a comprehensive overview of the period.
Page Count:
0
Publication Date:
1965-12-01
Publisher:
HarperCollins
ISBN-10:
0060059109
ISBN-13:
9780060059101
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