Six Centuries of Great Poetry: A Stunning Collection of Classic British Poems from Chaucer to Yeats

Uniquely comprehensive…highly readable…the definitive collection of classic lyric poetry.

From Shakespeare’s wise music to Marvell’s profundity and wit…from the Romantics’ passionate view of man and woman and nature to twentieth-centur poets’ confused searching, this outstanding one-volume collection brings us the profound, soul-nourishing experience of great poetry.

Brilliantly selected and arranged by renowned literary masters Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine, the poems here reflect the genius of six centuries of poets. It is the finest anthology of lyric poetry ever published.

Truth by Geoffrey Chaucer
Ophelia’s Song by William Shakespeare
The Canonization by John Donne
To Heaven by Ben Jonson
Ode on Solitude by Alexander Pope
The Tyger by William Blake
The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth
Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats

and more than ninety additional classic poems.