
The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse
Iona Opie(Author)
Oxford Paperbacks (Publisher)
Published on 30. May 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
422 pages
978-0-19-280196-8 (ISBN)
Description
This is a story-book, universal in its appeal and representative of a literary tradition from Chaucer to Auden. Its tales are of various kinds - romantic, humorous, ghostly, and gory, written over the past six hundred years. Here will be found Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' and Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner'; the tale of John Gilpin and of the Idiot Boy; 'The Lady of Shalott', 'The Pied Piper', and Lewis Carroll's 'The Hunting of the Snark'. In the twentieth century the narrative tradition is exemplified by Chesterton and Masefield, Charles Causley and C. Day-Lewis, amongst others. Most of the fifty-nine poems in this collection are given in their entirety, but abridgements and extracts from book-length narratives such as 'The Faerie Queene' and 'Paradise Lost' add to the richness and variety.
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New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
339 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-280196-8 (9780192801968)
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