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The Oxford Book of English Verse is a highly respected and widely respected anthology of English poetry, compiled by Arthur Quiller-Couch and published by Oxford University Press in 1900. The book is a testament to the rich and varied history of English poetry, featuring works by some of the most famous and influential poets in the English language, including William Shakespeare, John Donne, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
One of the most striking features of the Oxford Book of English Verse is its breadth and diversity. The book contains poetry from a wide range of historical periods, from the Middle Ages to the late 19th century, and represents a wide range of poetic styles and traditions. This diversity is reflective of the richness and complexity of the English language and its literary history, and makes the book an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the development of English poetry.
In addition to featuring works by well-known poets, the Oxford Book of English Verse also includes poetry by lesser-known and more obscure figures, providing a valuable window into the full range and diversity of English poetry. This is particularly true of the book's inclusion of works by women poets, who have often been overlooked or marginalized in the literary canon.
The Oxford Book of English Verse is not only a valuable resource for scholars and students of literature, but it is also a delightful and enjoyable read for anyone with an interest in poetry. The book's selections are carefully chosen and expertly arranged, making it an ideal introduction to the world of English poetry for those unfamiliar with the genre.
Overall, the Oxford Book of English Verse is a testament to the enduring power and beauty of English poetry. Its diverse and comprehensive selection of works serves as a rich and rewarding introduction to the world of English poetry, and its enduring popularity is a testament to its lasting value and significance.
The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse
Few of my contemporaries can erase—or would wish to erase—the dye their minds took from the late Mr. Eek wel I woot, he seyde myn housbonde Sholde leté fader and mooder, and take to me. Here, as before, are lyric beginning with medieval song , satire, hymn, ode, sonnet, elegy, ballad, but also kinds of poetry not previously admitted: the riches of dramatic verse by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Webster; great works of translation that are themselves true English poetry, such as Chapman's Homer bringing in its happy wake Keats's 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer' , Dryden's Juvenal, and many others; well-loved nursery rhymes, limericks, even clerihews. For ye must there in your hand bear A bow readý to draw; And as a thief thus must you live Ever in dread and awe; Whereby to you great harm might grow: Yet had I liever than That I had to the green-wood go, Alone, a banished man. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. But I have sometimes thought it consistent with the aim of the book to prefer the more beautiful to the better attested reading.
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The Oxford Book of English Verse by Christopher Ricks
May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. SHALL I thus ever long, and be no whit the neare? The numbers chosen are either lyrical or epigrammatic. Thomas joins Dylan Thomas from Wales--and Edward Taylor and Anne Bradstreet, writing in America before its independence in the 1770s, are given a rightful and rewarding place. But weilawey, save only Goddés wille! I will gather pears, my lovely one, To put in thy lap. Take advice from this old Englishman--pick up a copy of the above and take a nibble of the pleasing passions of poetry. Since my brain has started to wither on the stem, I picked up the OBoEV with the goal of learning a poem a week. Thus contrar thingis evirmar Discoweryngis off the tothir ar.
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The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Oxford Book of English Verse.
Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Though I go bare, take ye no care, I nothing am a-cold; I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old. Lo here, of payens corsed oldé rites, Lo here, what alle hire goddés may availle; Lo here, thise wrecched worldés appetites; Lo here, the fyn and guerdoun for travaille Of Jove, Appollo, of Mars, of swich rascaille! Today things are different: poetry has become largely an academic enterprise, and accordingly current anthologies tend to reflect not the taste of a general audience but the specialist jockeying that goes in English departments. A rich and rewarding trove of some really beautiful poetry, whilst some poets are given more space than necessary and some are perhaps neglected Ricks' compendium is a wonderful place to explore, to discover, and to feed on the complexity and elegance of human thought and expression. This is a wonderful and inspirational book something that I enjoy dipping in t I must be turning into a real softie! He is exampler, loode-ster, and guye; Principall patrone and rose orygynalle, Above all Maires as maister most worthy: London, thou art the flour of Cities all.
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A few small corrections have been made, but only when they were quite obvious. . The editor Christopher Ricks has done a magnificent job assembling this collection. Among the Muses Nine a tenth if Jove would make, And to the Graces Three a fourth, her would Apollo take. All my welfàre to sorrow and care Should change, if ye were gone: For, in my mind, of all mankind I love but you alone. She said she saw no fish nor fowl, nor beast within her haunt, That met a stranger in their kind, but could give it a taunt: Since flesh might not endure, but rest must wrath succeed, And force the fight to fall to play in pasture where they feed, So noble nature can well end the work she hath begun, And bridle well that will not cease her tragedy in some: Thus in song she oft rehearsed, as did her well behove, The falling out of faithful friends renewing is of love.
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The Oxford Book of English Verse by Christopher Ricks
To bring home and render so great a spoil compendiously has been my capital difficulty. Your mind is light, soon lost for new love. I'm falling short of the goal and some of the work can be a little Iambic but. More of Keats, Wordsworth, Shelly etc. To be sure, a man must come to such a task as mine haunted by his youth and the favourites he loved in days when he had much enthusiasm but little reading.
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Riht as a lyvés creature Sche semeth, for of yvor whyt He hath hire wroght of such delit, That sche was rody on the cheke And red on bothe hire lippés eke; Whereof that he himself beguileth. Then between us let us discuss What was all the manere Between them two: we will also Tell all the pain in fere That she was in. I was disappointed This is the definitive collection of poetry in English. Without more speech I you beseech That we were shortly gone; For, in my mind, of all mankind I love but you alone. He bare hym up, he bare hym down; He bare hym into an orchard brown.
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Oxford Book of English Verse
Synge now join Allingham and Yeats from Ireland; R. And yet wolde he hem no woo that wrought hym that peyne, But mekelich with mouthe mercy he bisoughte To have pite of that poeple that peyned hym to deth. And God be with yow, where ye go or ryde! He is the William M. Here, as before, are lyric beginning with medieval song , satire, hymn, ode, sonnet, elegy, ballad, but also kinds of poetry not previously admitted: the riches of dramatic verse by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Webster; great works of translation that are themselves true English poetry, such as Chapman's Homer bringing in its happy wake Keats's 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer' , Dryden's Juvenal, and many others; well-loved nursery rhymes, limericks, even clerihews. Here, as before, are lyric beginning with medieval song , satire, hymn, ode, sonnet, elegy, ballad, but also kinds of poetry not previously admitted: the riches of dramatic verse by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Webster; great works of translation that are themselves true English poetry, such as Chapman's Homer bringing in its happy wake Keats's 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer' , Dryden's Juvenal, and many others; well-loved nursery rhymes, limericks, even clerihews.
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The Oxford Book of English Verse: Edited By: Christopher Ricks: 9780192141828
This obsession with filling the pages of a prestigious publication with a needless lot of Eliot and his semi or unpoetical successors gets on nerves. Retrieved 27 November 2009. Adieu, Love, adieu, Love, untrue Love! For the I offered my blood in sacryfice. Untrue Love, untrue Love, adieu, Love! GYFF fredome fail; for fre liking Is yarnyt our all othir thing. This is a real reflection of many British poets those known and unknown.
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