London
Subtitle: a history in verse
By: edited by Mark Ford
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 745
ISBN-13: 9780674065680
Subjects: Poetry; English poetry
Description: London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Now poet Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging antholgy of poems about London to date, from Chaucer to Wordworth to the present day, providing a chronological tour of urban life and of English literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.