The Cambridge Companion to English Poets

by Claude Julien Rawson

Book Overview

This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement and importance, with readings of the most important...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521697034
• ISBN13: 9780521697033
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 580 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"