Six Centuries of Great Poetry

Uniquely comprehensive...highly readable...the definitive collection of classic lyric poetry. <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/>Truth by Geoffrey Chaucer<br>Ophelia's Song by William Shakespeare<br>The Canonization by John Donne<br>To Heaven by Ben Jonson<br>Ode on Solitude by Alexander Pope<br>The Tyger by William Blake<br>The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth<br>Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats<br>God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins<br>Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats <p/>and more than ninety additional classic poems.