The Cambridge Book of Lesser Poets

by J.C. Squire

Book Overview

When it was first published in 1927, The Cambridge Book of Lesser Poets was intended by its compiler, Sir John Collings Squire, to complement the well-known poetry anthologies of Francis Turner Palgrave and Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Squire began the task of assembling his anthology by deliberately omitting over one hundred greater poets, giving precedence to Nicholas Breton and John Clare in the place of Shakespeare and Tennyson. Although some familiar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521135893
• ISBN13: 9780521135894
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"