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PublisherPearson Education

ISBN-100321198670

ISBN-139780321198679

eBay Product ID (ePID)30221565

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Book Title100 Great Poets of the English Language

Number of Pages592 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, American / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2004

GenreLiterary Criticism, Poetry

AuthorDana Gioia

Book SeriesPenguin Academics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight20.5 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2003-067620

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal821.008

Table Of ContentPreface. BEOWULF POET (8th Century). Grendel Attacks. Battle with Grendel. Beowulf's Burial. GEOFFREY CHAUCER (c. 1340-1400). General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale. Merciless Beauty. SIR THOMAS WYATT (1503-1542). The Lover Complaineth the Unkindness of His Love. Stand Whoso List. They Flee from Me. Whoso List to Hunt. EDMUND SPENSER (c. 1552-1599). FROMAmoretti. The Rolling Wheele that Runneth often Round (#18). Like as a Huntsman After Weary Chase (#67). One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand (#75). Prothalamion. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586). FROMAstrophil and Stella. Loving in Truth, and Fain in Verse My Love to Show (#1). With How Sad Steps, O Moon, Thou Climb'st the Skies (#31). Come Sleep, Oh Sleep, the Certain Knot of Peace (#39). Leave me, O Love. My True Love Hath My Heart. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593). Elegia V. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. Faustus to Helen of Troy (FROMDoctor Faustus.) The End of Doctor Faustus (FROMDoctor Faustus.) WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616). When daisies pied and violets blue. When icicles hang by the wall. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (#18). When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes (#29). When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (#30). Not marble, nor the gilded monuments (#55). That time of year thou mayst in me behold (#73). Let me not to the marriage of true minds (#116). My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (#130). When my love swears that she is made of truth (#138). Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth (#146). Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun. Full fathom five thy father lies. JOHN DONNE (1572-163

Synopsis'100 Great Poets' is provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the poetic tradition in English. Chronologically arranged, the book presents the major poets from Beowulf to the present with representative examples from each author. The headnotes and selections reflect the high notes of each poet's career., 100 Great Poets provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the poetic tradition in English. Chronologically arranged, the book presents the major poets from Beowulf to the present with representative examples from each author. The headnotes and selections reflect the high notes of each poet s career the classic poems that have earned an enduring place in the canon of English language literature.

LC Classification NumberPR1175.A137155 2004