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The Penguin Book of English Verse

The Penguin Book of English Verse

by John Hayward

Book Details

Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 1977
Language: en
Pages: 484
ISBN: 9780713911527
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💥Violence
5
❤️Love & Romance
2
🧠Mental Health
2
🧙Fantasy / Supernatural
1
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🍷🚬Substance Use
2
🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ+
2
😨Fear / Horror

Description

Spanning four golden centuries of poetry in the English language. This classic Penguin anthology opens with Wyatt, Spenser and Shakespeare and concludes with Dylan Thomas. Along the way, in a kind of royal progress from the reign of the first Elizabeth to that of the second, it takes in metaphysical poetry, romantic poetry and war poetry; verse by the great Americans such as Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost; love songs and lyrics, odes, sonnets and elegies.

Themes & Topics

English poetry.American poetry.

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