Title: English Lyric Tradition
Description: "This readers' guide introduces to a 21st-century audience some of the greatest masterpieces of English poetry spanning five centuries. Focusing on poems by Chaucer, Wyatt, Shakespeare, Milton and others, the author discusses the development of poetic technique, explains the rhetorical culture of earlier centuries and describes the various lyric forms--including lover's complaints, sonnets and elegies"--
Subjects: English poetry, history and criticism, English poetry, History and criticism, Lyric poetry