The Oxford Book of English Verse Part 2

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(245 245 245 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This second part of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(245 245 245 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Oxford Book of English Verse</em><span style=background-color: rgba(245 245 245 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> introduces the reader to Shakespeare his contemporaries and the writers of the generation that followed. Especially noteworthy are the riches of the Bard himself the bluff certainties of Ben Jonson Robert Herrick's lyricism and the contrasting devotional poems of John Donne and George Herbert though golden lines are plentiful throughout this work. Readers may quite possibly discover that this is their favorite period in English poetry as many others have before them.</span></p>