A comprehensive�collection of verses from more than�80 of the world's greatest poets, spanning from the thirteenth century to the present day
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Including such leading luminaries as Burns, Keats, Tennyson, T. S. Eliot, Philip Larkin, and Carol Ann Duffy, this is a marvelous reminder of the poetry�many of us once knew�by heart, as well
as a collection of some of the finest poems in the English�language. Arranged thematically in chapters that cover childhood and youth, nature, love and romance, home and travel, elegies, and
more, and enlivened with Ana Sampson's crisply witty introductions and notes on the poets, this is the ultimate poetic compendium for language lovers everywhere.
