Title: The Columbia anthology of British poetry /
Authors: Woodring, Carl, 1919-; Shapiro, James, 1955-; Woodring, Carl, 1919-2009.; Shapiro, James, 1955-; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: Columbia University Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: English poetry
Abstract: A compendium of British verse from Old and Middle English to the present, including the best work of poets from every corner of the British Isles, this work offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive single volume available. Unencumbered by extensive notes that divert attention from the spirit of the verse, this book allows the readers to discover the poems for themselves.
Contents: Old English poetry: Beowulf / Translation by Ruth P. M. Lehmann -- Battle of Brunanburh / Translation by Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The seafarer / Trnslation by Ezra Pound -- Dafydd Gwilym -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- Money, money -- The unquiet grave -- The blacksmiths -- I sing of a maiden -- Alone walking -- Western wind -- William Dunbar -- John Skelton -- Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- Anne Askew -- Anne Vaughan Locke -- Queen Elizabeth I -- George Gascoigne -- Edmund Spenser -- Sir Philip Sidney -- Fulke Greville, First Baron Brooke -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke -- Samuel Daniel -- Michael DRayton -- Christopher Marlowe -- William Shakespeare -- Thomas Campion -- Eochaidh O' Heoghusa -- Aemilia Bassano Lanyer -- Ben Jonson -- John Donne -- Richard Barnfield -- John Marston -- Mary Sidney Wroth -- Robert Herrick -- Henry King -- George Herbert -- Thomas Carew -- Edmund Waller -- John Milton -- Sir John Suckling --^