Summary

This two-volume anthology celebrates four centuries of English poetry, from the Elizabethan era to the present day.

This two-volume anthology celebrates four centuries of English poetry, from the Elizabethan era to the present day. From Blake's Songs of Innocence to Heaney's Punishment, this, the second of the two volumes, encompasses the work of many of the great poets of the last two centuries, including Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Keats; Tennyson, Hopkins, and Rosetti; and the modern poetry of Yeats, MacNiece, Auden, and Larkin. A volume to be treasured. --Oxford University Press.