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The Earliest English Poems
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Michael Alexander
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1970 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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The Best Poems of the English Language
Language: en
Pages: 1012
Authors: Harold Bloom
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-07 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. The book features a large intr
The Rhythms of English Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 410
Authors: Derek Attridge
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-10 - Publisher: Routledge

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Examines the way in which poetry in English makes use of rhythm. The author argues that there are three major influences which determine the verse-forms used in
The First Poems in English
Language: en
Pages: 187
Authors: Michael Alexander
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-05-29 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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This selection of the earliest poems in English comprises works from an age in which verse was not written down, but recited aloud and remembered. Heroic poems
Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001
Language: en
Pages: 672
Authors: Carolyn Forché
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-27 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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A groundbreaking anthology containing the work of poets who have witnessed war, imprisonment, torture, and slavery. A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Po