Poets on PoetsNick Rennison, Michael Schmidt To mark National Poetry, Day Nick Rennison, who compiled the Waterstone's Guide to Poetry, and Michael Schmidt, editorial director of Carcanet, invited a number of contemporary poets to select work by poets of the past, beginning in the late fourteenth century and ending in the early twentieth, and to provide brief headnotes to describe their choices. The result is an anthology with a difference. From Gower to Yeats, from the old and the new worlds, the selectors and the selected converge in a volume of wonderful poetry and rich surprise. Providing more than 450 pages of poetry and commentary in a handsome large two-column format, Poets on Poets celebrates vital continuities: the range of poets making selections and the range of poetry selected is without precedent in an English-language poetry anthology. Its aim is to encourage a wider readership of classic English poetry and to signal the generative connection between new poetry and the best of the past. |
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... GROWING OLD What is it to grow old ? Is it to lose the glory of the form , The lustre of the eye ? Is it for beauty to forego her wreath ? - Yes but not this alone . Is it to feel our strength - Not our bloom only , but our strength ...
... GROWING OLD What is it to grow old ? Is it to lose the glory of the form , The lustre of the eye ? Is it for beauty to forego her wreath ? - Yes but not this alone . Is it to feel our strength - Not our bloom only , but our strength ...
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... grow like brutes conceived ; My feet will soon be fixed - and every limb Be swollen , distorted , till I am become A wild old mountain , forest over - grown , And have a dreadful tempest for a voice ; Aye , the abhorred conscience of ...
... grow like brutes conceived ; My feet will soon be fixed - and every limb Be swollen , distorted , till I am become A wild old mountain , forest over - grown , And have a dreadful tempest for a voice ; Aye , the abhorred conscience of ...
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... grow mad , and all grow bad , And none a word may say . Each narrow cell in which we dwell Is a foul and dark latrine , And the fetid breath of living Death Chokes each grated screen , up And all , but Lust , is turned to dust In ...
... grow mad , and all grow bad , And none a word may say . Each narrow cell in which we dwell Is a foul and dark latrine , And the fetid breath of living Death Chokes each grated screen , up And all , but Lust , is turned to dust In ...
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from The Geäte aVallèn | 9 |
The Oviparous Tailor | 15 |
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