The Oxford Book of Poetry: A Cross-Century Anthology of Classical, Medieval, Romantic, and Victorian Verse
by William Shakespeare, George Macdonald, Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Tennyson, Virgil, Emily Bronte, Julius Caesar, Geoffrey Chaucer, Christopher Marlowe, Ovid, John Milton, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, William Blake, Andrew Lang, Edmund Spenser, Robert Burns, Alexander Pope, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Butler Yeats, Oliver Goldsmith, T. W. Rolleston, Sir Thomas Wyatt, George Meredith, Thomas Love Peacock, Claudius, Sir Walter Raleigh, Gilbert Parker, Quintus Tullius Cicero, Porcius Licinius, Gaius Maecenas, Numa Pompilius
The Oxford Book of Poetry brings together verse linked to classical, medieval, Romantic, and Victorian traditions. Featuring an extensive roster of poets and writers, from Virgil, Ovid, and Chaucer to Shakespeare, Keats, Tennyson, Whitman, and Yeats, it offers a broad literary anthology for readers exploring poetry across centuries.
About This Book
The Oxford Book of Poetry presents a cross-century anthology of verse connected with classical, medieval, Romantic, and Victorian traditions.
Its contributors include widely recognized poets such as William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, Virgil, Ovid, John Milton, William Wordsworth, Emily Brontë, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and Alfred Tennyson.
The collection also features poetry associated with Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Robert Burns, William Blake, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rudyard Kipling, and William Butler Yeats.
With authors spanning numerous periods and literary backgrounds, this volume offers a broad survey of English-language and classical poetic traditions.
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