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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry
Carl R. Woodring (Ed.)
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Description for The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry
Hardback. A sweeping compendium of British verse from Old and Middle English to the present, including the best work of poets from every corner of the British Isles, this anthology offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive single volume available. Editor(s): Woodring, Carl; Shapiro, James. Num Pages: 891 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DC; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 165 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1362.
A sweeping compendium of British verse from Old and Middle English to the present, including the best work of poets from every corner of the British Isles, The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive single volume available. Carl Woodring and James Shapiro, the same experienced editorial team who brought students and lovers of literature The Columbia History of British Literature, now present a volume that resonates with contemporary significance, yet also takes into account the centuries-old poetic tradition that planted Great Britain centrally in the canon of Western Literature. The Columbia Anthology pays ... Read more
A sweeping compendium of British verse from Old and Middle English to the present, including the best work of poets from every corner of the British Isles, The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive single volume available. Carl Woodring and James Shapiro, the same experienced editorial team who brought students and lovers of literature The Columbia History of British Literature, now present a volume that resonates with contemporary significance, yet also takes into account the centuries-old poetic tradition that planted Great Britain centrally in the canon of Western Literature. The Columbia Anthology pays ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
891
Condition
New
Number of Pages
891
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231101806
SKU
V9780231101806
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About Carl R. Woodring (Ed.)
Carl Woodring is George Edward Woodberry Professor of Literature Emeritus at Columbia University. The coeditor of The Columbia History of British Poetry (Columbia, 1993), he is also the author of such works as Nature into Art and Politics in English Romantic Poetry which won the Gauss Award.James Shapiro is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Associate Chair of ... Read more
Reviews for The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry
Among the countless anthologies of poetry, one always looks for a book in which both scholarship and taste contribute at the highest levels. For anyone who writes or reads poetry, or has the sensibility to be drawn to it, this is the book. James Dickey Superb... The ideal introduction to British poetry. Mark Strand