Six Centuries of Great Poetry

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 ChaucerOphelia's Song by William ShakespeareThe Canonization by John DonneTo Heaven by Ben JonsonOde on Solitude by Alexander PopeThe Tyger by William BlakeThe Solitary Reaper by William WordsworthOde to a Nightingale by John KeatsGod's Grandeur by Gerard Manley HopkinsSailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats. and more than ninety additional classic poems.