This compact anthology contains many of the best works of 59 poets writing in Englishfrom the complex rhyme schemes of Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser and lovely sonnets of the preeminent English poet and playwright William Shakespeare to William Blake’s visionary works and John Keats’ profound insights into the nature of beauty, art, and mortality.Here also are beloved poems by Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Burns, William Butler Yeats, Rupert Brooke, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and 43 other great English, Irish, and Scottish writers. In addition to a concise introduction, this volume provides brief commentaries on the poets represented. The result is a carefully selected anthology that will be studied and treasured by students and poetry lovers alike.Dover Original selection. Anonymous; Edmund Spenser; Sir Philip Sidney; Christopher Marlowe; Sir Walter Raleigh; William Shakespeare; Thomas Nashe; Thomas Campion; John Donne; Ben Jonson; Robert Herrick; George Herbert; Thomas Carew; Edmund Waller; John Milton; Sir John Suckling; Richard Lovelace; Henry Vaughan; Andrew Marvell; John Dryden; Alexander Pope; William Blake; Robert Burns; William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Leigh Hunt; George Gordon, Lord Byron; Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Keats; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Robert Browning; Matthew Arnold; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; George Meredith; Christina Rossetti; Lewis Carroll; William Morris; Algernon Charles Swinburne; Thomas Hardy; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Robert Bridges; William Ernest Henley; Robert Louis Stevenson; A. E. Housman; Rudyard Kipling; William Butler Yeats; Walter de la Mare; Edward Thomas; John Masefield; D. H. Lawrence; Rupert Brooke; T. S. Eliot; Isaac Rosenberg; Wilfred Owen; Robert Graves; W. H. Auden; Stephen Spender; Dylan Thomas Reviews There are no reviews yet. Be the first to review “100 Favorite English and Irish Poems” Cancel replyYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Your rating * Rate… Perfect Good Average Not that bad Very poor Your review *Name * Email * Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
