The Oxford Book of English Verse Author:Christopher Ricks * Drawn from all corners of the British Isles, and from seven and a half centuries of poetry in English, this in an anthology for all seasons — * Over 800 wonderful poems, in all moods and verse forms, from ballads to blank verse, hymns to haikus, sonnets to songs — * Opening joyfully with 'Summer in icumen in -', "The Oxford Book of English Verse... more »" will delight the reader with fresh discoveries from all periods, and new encounters with well-loved poets, dead and living - bringing us up to the present with Seamus Heaney and his version of 'the opening hand'
* Edited and introduced by Christopher Ricks, described by Auden as 'exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding'« less