Poets on PoetsNick Rennison, Michael Schmidt To mark National Poetry, Day Nick Rennison, who compiled the Waterstone's Guide to Poetry, and Michael Schmidt, editorial director of Carcanet, invited a number of contemporary poets to select work by poets of the past, beginning in the late fourteenth century and ending in the early twentieth, and to provide brief headnotes to describe their choices. The result is an anthology with a difference. From Gower to Yeats, from the old and the new worlds, the selectors and the selected converge in a volume of wonderful poetry and rich surprise. Providing more than 450 pages of poetry and commentary in a handsome large two-column format, Poets on Poets celebrates vital continuities: the range of poets making selections and the range of poetry selected is without precedent in an English-language poetry anthology. Its aim is to encourage a wider readership of classic English poetry and to signal the generative connection between new poetry and the best of the past. |
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... SLEEP , SON OF THE SABLE NIGHT ' Care - charmer Sleep , son of the sable Night , Brother to Death , in silent darkness born , Relieve my anguish , and restore the light : With dark forgetting of my care return , And let the day be time ...
... SLEEP , SON OF THE SABLE NIGHT ' Care - charmer Sleep , son of the sable Night , Brother to Death , in silent darkness born , Relieve my anguish , and restore the light : With dark forgetting of my care return , And let the day be time ...
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... sleep ) , Betake thee to thy bed , thou drowsy drone , Sleep by thyself , and leave thy bride alone : Go leave her with her maiden mates to play At sports more harmless till the break of day ; Give us this evening : thou hast morn and ...
... sleep ) , Betake thee to thy bed , thou drowsy drone , Sleep by thyself , and leave thy bride alone : Go leave her with her maiden mates to play At sports more harmless till the break of day ; Give us this evening : thou hast morn and ...
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... sleep at peace may be . Teach me to live , that I may dread The grave as little as my bed ; To die , that this vile body may Rise glorious at the awful day . O may my soul on thee repose And may sweet sleep mine eyelids close , Sleep ...
... sleep at peace may be . Teach me to live , that I may dread The grave as little as my bed ; To die , that this vile body may Rise glorious at the awful day . O may my soul on thee repose And may sweet sleep mine eyelids close , Sleep ...
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