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Six Centuries of Great Poetry, from Chaucer to Yeats
Six Centuries of Great Poetry from Chaucer to Yeats Author:Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine, ed. "The great English poetic tradition, which began more than a thousand years ago. . .has had its share of glory in the epic and dramatic forms. But the bearers of that tradition have most consistently been England's lyric poets. . .The lyric greatness that we inherit has come down to us through Chaucer and hundreds of later poets, and in varying... more » poetic styles. . .But the tradition remains lyric, and it remains great; and the work of the men who made it is in this book." Includes poems of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Wordsworth, Keats, Spenser, Donne, Blake, Coleridge, Tennyson, Yeats, and many others.« less