
The Oxford Book of Short Poems
Oxford University Press
Published on 24. July 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
348 pages
978-0-19-280410-5 (ISBN)
Description
Short poems can have marvellous clarity, humour, and depth. They can range from subjects as diverse as a child's first wods, a woman's feet, or the destiny of man.
P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie have chosen those short poems (of less than fourteen lines) which they consider to be the best in the English language, from medieval times to the present day. Their selection extends from Chaucer to Philip Larkin, from Shakespeare to Emily Bronte, from Blake to Edith Sitwell, and from Yeats to Emily Dickinson, demonstrating the gradual changes in style, subject-matter, and tone from one generation of poets to the next.
P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie have chosen those short poems (of less than fourteen lines) which they consider to be the best in the English language, from medieval times to the present day. Their selection extends from Chaucer to Philip Larkin, from Shakespeare to Emily Bronte, from Blake to Edith Sitwell, and from Yeats to Emily Dickinson, demonstrating the gradual changes in style, subject-matter, and tone from one generation of poets to the next.
Reviews / Votes
Review from previous edition One of the best of Oxford anthologies and a wonderful literal demonstration of Pound's remardk about poetry being a matter of gists and piths. * Guardian *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
General readers and students interested in poetry
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
371 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-280410-5 (9780192804105)
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Persons
P. J. Kavanagh edited the Collected Poems of Ivor Gurney (OUP 1982). Other publications include Finding Connections (Flamingo 1991), The Perfect Stranger (Carcanet 1995), and Voices in Ireland: A Traveller's Literary Companion (1994)
James Michie is a poet and translator. Publications include his own Collected Poems (Sinclair Stevenson, 1994)
James Michie is a poet and translator. Publications include his own Collected Poems (Sinclair Stevenson, 1994)
Editor
, Poet, prose writer, and critic.
, Poet, translator, and publisher
Content
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