The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918

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Find sources: "The Oxford Book of English Verse"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( November 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) To the President and Fellows and Scholars of Trinity College Oxford / a house of learning; ancient, liberal, humane, and my most kindly nurse" BY favour of the Public, The Oxford Book of English Verse has held its own in request for close upon forty years. The editor would stand convicted of dullness indeed if in these years he had not learnt, revising his judgement, to regret some inclusions and omissions; of indolence, moreover, the industry of scholars having rescued to light meanwhile many gems long hidden away in libraries, miscellanies, even scrap-books. In this new edition, therefore, I have risked repairing the old structure with a stone here, a tile there, and hope to have left it as weather-proof as when it as first built.

urn:lcp:oxfordbookofengl0000unse_x9y7:epub:03da82af-2f93-439f-b5e9-d59098b35ace Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4081 Identifier oxfordbookofengl0000unse_x9y7 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2k33vs29cw Invoice 1605 Isbn 0192141821 Generous and wide-ranging, mixing familiar with fresh delights, this is an anthology to move and delight all who find themselves loving English verse. Q's own characterization of his job as “to bring home and render so great a spoil [of poetry] compendiously ... as to serve those who already love poetry and to implant that love in some young minds not yet initiated,” places him squarely in his mentor's tradition as summarizer and transmitter of the nation's poetic taste. If Q then was following taste, where did it lead him? Did he produce an anthology giving us a unified array of poems which are, in those words of Shelley which Palgrave had quoted as The Golden Treasury's program, “episodes to that great Poem which all poets, like the co-operating thoughts of one great mind, have built up since the beginning of the world”? Does his book embody that one great poem? And if so, what does it tell us about that one great mind?R. L. Stevenson: the executors; Messrs. Chatto & Windus, Ltd.; Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Sir Henry Newbolt (from Poems New and Old): Sir Francis Newbolt and the executors of the late Sir Henry Newbolt. I've been an Anglophile for nearly as long as I can remember and England has always been the one place I most wanted to visit. Finally, in 2017, my 51st year of life, my husband and I were able to spend 2 glorious weeks road-tripping across England, from the Lake District to York to Derbyshire to the Cotswold region to the South West coast and finally to London. We stayed in Richmond for the final 3 days of our trip in a charming Airbnb cottage very near Kew Gardens and Kew Station. We spent our last day at Kew Gardens - the weather was uncommonly hot, the hottest week of the entire summer, as it turns out, and its refreshingly green spaces were the most pleasant surroundings possible in the 32C heat. James Joyce (from Collected Poems): Mr. Joyce; Messrs. Faber & Faber, Ltd.; The Viking Press, New York.

FOR this Anthology I have tried to range over the whole field of English Verse from the beginning, or from the Thirteenth Century to this closing year of the Nineteenth, and to choose the best. Nor have I sought in these Islands only, but wheresoever the Muse has followed the tongue which among living tongues she most delights to honour. To bring home and render so great a spoil compendiously has been my capital difficulty. It is for the reader to judge if I have so managed it as to serve those who already love poetry and to implant that love in some young minds not yet initiated. Lord Tennyson (from Works of Alfred Tennyson) the author's representative; Messrs. Macmillan Co., Ltd , The Macmillan Co., New York. Mary Coleridge (from Poems): Sir Francis Newbolt and the executors of the late Sir Henry Newbolt; Messrs. Elkin Mathews. I think Q was brilliant to end on this poem which exactly defines my feelings on reading this volume. G. K. Chesterton. Miss Collins, Messrs. Methuen & Co., Ltd., and Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York (for 'The Rolling English Road'); Messrs. J. M. Dent & Co., Ltd. (for 'The Donkey').This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.