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Author : John Hayward
Publisher : Lane, Allen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Penguin Book of English Verse written by John Hayward and published by Lane, Allen. This book was released on 1978 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P J Keegan
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141941871
Total Pages : 1184 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Penguin Book of English Verse written by P J Keegan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet.
Author : Paul Keegan
Publisher : Putnam Juvenile
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1194 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book The New Penguin Book of English Verse written by Paul Keegan and published by Putnam Juvenile. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revolutionary collection abandons the traditional poet-by-poet approach of most anthologies, presenting seven centuries of English verse as an uninterrupted sequence of poems ordered according to their first individual appearance in the language. The result is a more continuous view of English verse that reveals a fascinating new chronology. Furthermore, this volume chronicles the evolution of English verse in linguistic and historical-rather than only biographical-terms, presenting the texts with original spelling and punctuation. Through the words of the well known and the anonymous, in epitaphs, ballads, folk poetry, and nonsense verse, this definitive anthology gives readers the true voice of English poetry as it has developed from the fourteenth to the late twentieth century.
Download or read book The Penguin Book of English Verse written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paula Burnett
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141937394
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English written by Paula Burnett and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-11-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last few decades Caribbean writers - performance poets, newspaper poets, singer-songwriters - have created a genuinely popular art form, a poetry heard by audiences all over the world. At the same time, even at its most literary, Caribbean poetry shares the vigour of the oral tradition. Writers like Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott, and many other exciting new voices, are exploring ways of capturing the vitality of the spoken word on the page. Both of these traditions are represented in this lively anthology, which traces Caribbean verse from its roots to the present.
Author : David Wright
Publisher : ePenguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140421026
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book English Romantic Verse written by David Wright and published by ePenguin. This book was released on 1973-08-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence. Nearly all the famous piéces de résistance will be found here - 'Intimations of Immortality', 'The Ancient Mariner', 'The Tyger', excerpts from 'Don Juan' - as well as some less familiar poems. As far as possible the poets are arranged in chronological order, and their poems in order of composition, beginning with eighteenth-century precursors such as Gray, Cowper, Burns and Chatterton. Naturally most space has been given over to the major Romantics - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Clare and Keats - although their successors, poets such as Beddoes and Poe, are included too, as well as early poems by Tennyson and Browning. In an excellent introduction David Wright discusses the Romantics as a historical phenomenon, and points out their central ideals and themes.
Author : H. Woudhuysen
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014191386X
Total Pages : 1400 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse written by H. Woudhuysen and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a broad selection of its poetry, and includes a wide range of works by the great poets of the age - notably Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Sepnser, John Donne, William Shakespeare and John Milton. Poems by less well-known writers also feature prominently - among them significant female poets such as Lady Mary Wroth and Katherine Philips. Compelling and exhilarating, this landmark collection illuminates a time of astonishing innovation, imagination and diversity.
Author : Richard Stokes
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141982551
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Penguin Book of English Song written by Richard Stokes and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Penguin Book of English Song anthologizes the work of 100 English poets who have inspired a host of different composers (some English, some not) to write vocal music. Each of the chapters, arranged chronologically from Chaucer to Auden, opens with a precis of the poet's life, work and, often, approach to music. Richard Stokes's notes and commentaries constantly illuminate the language and themes of the poems and their settings in unexpected ways. An awareness of how Ben Jonson based his famous poem 'Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes' on a Greek original, for example, increases our enjoyment of both the poem and the traditional song; knowledge of Thomas Hardy's relationships with women deepens our appreciation of songs by Ireland, Finzi, Britten and others; Charles Dibdin's 'Tom Bowling', played each year at the Last Night of the Proms, takes on a deeper resonance when we know that it was written after the death of his brother Tom, a sea captain struck by lightning in the Indian Ocean. Many composers of different nationalities appear, but the book remains quintessentially British, and includes pieces that have an established place in our national consciousness: 'Rule, Britannia' (James Thomson), 'Abide with me' (Henry Francis Lyte), 'Auld lang syne' (Robert Burns), 'Jerusalem' (William Blake), 'Once in royal David's city' (Mrs C. F. Alexander), and even 'Twinkle, twinkle, little star' (Jane Taylor). The poems are printed in their original versification and spelling, enabling us to trace the development of the English language as the book progresses. The volume presents a huge amount of information about English Song that will enlighten all those who delight in the fusion of words and music. The presence of minor as well as major poets and the unique principle of selection make The Penguin Book of English Song a highly original anthology of English verse.
Author : George Steiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Modern Verse Translation written by George Steiner and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book of its kind. It contains some two hundred and fifty poems by the major English and American poets from Swinburne and Hopkins to Robert Lowell; each poem is a translation of imitation of a work in a foreign tongue. Twenty-two languages are represented in this glittering collection. They range from Hebrew and classical Greek to modern Chinese, from Polish to Korean. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden, Richard Wilbur, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald are included--each a master in his own right, but seen here as the re-creator of another poet's voice. George Steiner believes that ours is the most beautiful period of poetic translation since the Elizabethans. Here is his evidence.--Cover
Author : Peter Levi
Publisher : Puffin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Penguin Book of English Christian Verse written by Peter Levi and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
