A Folio Anthology of Poetry, Folio Edition
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A Folio Anthology of Poetry Folio Edition This is a classic collection and a wonderful introduction to poetry, but it contains surprises even for the most well-read. There are famous works: Keats’s ‘To Autumn’, Byron’s ‘She walks in beauty, Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’, Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress’ – and rarer gems: John Hoskins’s haunting ‘Absence, hear thou my protestation’, and ‘On a Bed of Guernsey Lilies’ by the 18th-century visionary Christopher Smart, as well as Kipling’s ‘The Explanation’, an allegorical love poem. The poems are listed alphabetically by title, creating interesting juxtapositions: William Cowper’s castaway’s lament ‘Alexander Selkirk’ is next to Richard Lovelace’s ‘To Althea, from Prison’, and Matthew Arnold’s ‘The Scholar Gypsy’ is followed by William Blake’s ‘The School Boy’. There are sonnets and epistles, complaints and elegies on every subject – love, war, nature, youth and the seasons, and even Thomas Gray’s ‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes’. (This is from the Folio Society web site.) This book sell for $69.95 from the Folio web site. Book is brand new, still shrink wrapped. This book will make a wonderful addition to your library or a great gift. Shipping weight is appx. 4 lbs.
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