Essential Book of Poetry: Five Centuries of Verse

This outstanding poetry anthology gathers together poems from a wide range of writers over the last five hundred years, featuring modern, topical poetry by contemporary poets as well as timeless classics from the past.

Shakespeare's sonnets; the religious verse of Milton and Donne; the mock-heroic epics of Pope; the romantic works of Wordsworth, Keats and Byron; modern verse by Yeats and Eliot and up-to-the-minute poetry from, among others, John Hegley and Wendy Cope are all represented here. It is the perfect collection for reference, study and pleasure.