FOLIO SOCIETY ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY , SLIP CASE !!
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A Folio Anthology of Poetry NEW IN SLIP CASE Bound in buckram, blocked with a design by Eri Griffin.Set in Baskerville.Approx. 448 pages with 50 tailpieces.Book Size: 10" × 6¾".Introduced by Carol Ann Duffy.Book Illustrated by Eri Griffin. A Folio Anthology of Poetry ‘What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.’ GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, ‘INVERSNAID’ When Byron described poetry as ‘the feeling of a former world and future’, he perfectly summed up the power of great poems to speak to us across the ages. Introduced by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, this anthology is a celebration of poetry and the passion it inspires. It gathers together more than 300 of our favourite poems, spanning over 400 years from the Tudor court verse of John Skelton and Thomas Wyatt to Yeats’s ‘Politics’, first published in 1938.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
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