Book description
This classic Penguin anthology opens with Wyatt, Spenser and Shakespeare and concludes with Dylan Thomas. Along the way – in a kind of royal progress from the reign of the first Elizabeth to that of the second – it takes in metaphysical poetry; verse by the great Americsns such as Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost; love songs and lyrics, odes, sonnets, some of the best, the riches and most delightful poetry written in the English language.
