The Lives Of The Poets

by Michael Schmidt (Author), Michael Schmidt (Author), Simon Shaw (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1998

  $3.25

  A Sophie's World for poetry : on the lives and works of poets writing in English from Chaucer to Keats, from Yeats to Heaney, from Whitman to Walcott. An indespensable book for all those interested in poetry who may not want to read an entire biography of a poet and for anyone studying poetry at school or university.

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  Paperback
  1999

  $5.17

  Michael Schmidt surveys the rise of English poetry and the language itself from the Black Death to the court poetry of Chaucer and Sir Philip Sidney, the triumph of Marlowe and Shakespeare, the wit of Donne and Marvell, the urbane sophistication of Pope and Dr Johnson, the romanticism of Keats and Shelley, the questioning spirit of the Victorians and ending with the twentieth century, from T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats to Paul Muldoon and Thom Gunn. Each chapter combines commentary and quotation to acquaint the reader with the main themes of the poet's work, what his influences were, what the key works are, as well as bringing in from the margins some neglected voices. An indispensable book for all those interested in poetry who may not want to read an entire biography of a poet and for anyone studying poetry at school or university.