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London: A History in Verse

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Description for London: A History in Verse Paperback. London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems about London to date, from Chaucer to Wordsworth to the present day, providing a chronological tour of urban life and of English literature. The volume includes an introductory essay by the poet. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 227 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1248.

Called “the flour of Cities all,” London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Now poet Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems about London to date, from Chaucer to Wordsworth to the present day, providing a chronological tour of urban life and of English literature.

Nearly all of the major poets of British literature have left some poetic record of London: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, and T. S. Eliot. Ford goes well beyond these figures, however, to gather significant verse of all ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
784
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674088047
SKU
V9780674088047
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About John Ford
Mark Ford is Professor of English and American Literature at University College London.

Reviews for London: A History in Verse
The huge anthology [Ford] has edited is a considerable and welcome achievement. Any literate cloakroom should have a copy, but so should anyone interested in London or, indeed, life.
Lachlan MacKinnon
Times Literary Supplement
[A] superb anthology… Ford’s collection shows the development of particular city-sensibilities: the hedonistic, jaded, nostalgic, urbane. Oppositions are played out as much between ... Read more

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