The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918

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Mary Coleridge (from Poems): Sir Francis Newbolt and the executors of the late Sir Henry Newbolt; Messrs. Elkin Mathews. Edward Thomas (from Collected Poems of Edward Thomas) . Mrs. Edward Thomas and Messrs. Faber & Faber, Ltd. FOR this Anthology I have tried to range over the whole field of English Verse from the beginning, or from the Thirteenth Century to this closing year of the Nineteenth, and to choose the best. Nor have I sought in these Islands only, but wheresoever the Muse has followed the tongue which among living tongues she most delights to honour. To bring home and render so great a spoil compendiously has been my capital difficulty. It is for the reader to judge if I have so managed it as to serve those who already love poetry and to implant that love in some young minds not yet initiated. I've been an Anglophile for nearly as long as I can remember and England has always been the one place I most wanted to visit. Finally, in 2017, my 51st year of life, my husband and I were able to spend 2 glorious weeks road-tripping across England, from the Lake District to York to Derbyshire to the Cotswold region to the South West coast and finally to London. We stayed in Richmond for the final 3 days of our trip in a charming Airbnb cottage very near Kew Gardens and Kew Station. We spent our last day at Kew Gardens - the weather was uncommonly hot, the hottest week of the entire summer, as it turns out, and its refreshingly green spaces were the most pleasant surroundings possible in the 32C heat.

T. E. Brown (from Collected Poems of T. E. Brown): the author's representatives; Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd.; The Macmillan Co., New York.

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A. E. Housman (from Last Poems and A Shropshire Lad): the literary executors, Messrs. Henry Holt, Inc., New York.I think Q was brilliant to end on this poem which exactly defines my feelings on reading this volume. urn:lcp:oxfordbookofengl0000unse_x9y7:epub:03da82af-2f93-439f-b5e9-d59098b35ace Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4081 Identifier oxfordbookofengl0000unse_x9y7 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2k33vs29cw Invoice 1605 Isbn 0192141821 Anthologies are the route by which young people find poets, and this one is full of good introductions to good poets.”–Helen Vendler, The New Republic John Masefield (from The Collected Poems of John Masefield): Mr. Masefield; Messrs. Wm. Heinemann, Ltd.; The Macmillan Co., New York. Edward Taylor -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester -- Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough -- Anne Finch -- Countess of Winchilsea -- Tom Brown -- Matthew Prior -- George Granville, Lord Lansdowne -- Jonathan Swift -- William Congreve -- Joseph Addison -- Isaac Watts -- Joseph Trapp -- George Berkeley -- John Gay -- Allan Ramsay -- Alexander Pope -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- Charles Mordaunt, William Oldys -- Samuel Johnson -- William Shenstone -- Thomas Gray -- William Collins -- Mary Leapor -- Christopher Smart -- Frances Greville -- Jean Elliot -- Oliver Goldsmith -- William Cowper -- Anna Seward -- Robert Fergusson -- Lade Anne Lindsay -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan