A unique change in the language and form of poetry began late in the eighteenth century. In this unique anthology Oscar Williams charts the course of that poetic revolution through two centuries as he presents sizable selections from the work of 22 great British poets. Introduction by Julian Symons. Authors include: Wiliam Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Alred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Emily Bronte, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, Algernon Charles, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Davidson, A. E. Housman, William Butler Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, Edwin Mur, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, George Barker, and Dylan Thomas.
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