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National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist In this stunning volume of epic breadth, Michael Schmidt connects the lives and works of more than 300 poets over the last 700 years--spanning distant shores from Scotland to Australia to the Caribbean, all sharing the English language. Schmidt... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Chaucer: Add a description of this character.
- Milton
- Donne
- Wordsworth
- T. S. Eliot
- Shakespeare
- Dryden
- Byron
- Auden
- Blake
- Whitman
- Arnold
- Marlowe
- Herbert
- Coleridge
- Tennyson
- Ralegh
- Sidney
- Hardy
- Jonson
- Johnson
- Swinburne
- Spenser
- Owen
- Gower
- Lawrence
- Cowper
- Macdiarmid
- Criseyde
- Ginsberg
- Olson
- Stevens
- Williams
- Thomas
- Donald Davie
- Douglas
- Aubrey
- Virgil
- Rosenberg
- Housman
- Keats
- Larkin
- Emerson
- Troilus
- Warton
- O'hara
- Burns
- Plath
Setting & Locations edit
- England
- London
- Cambridge
- America
- France
- Ireland
- New York
- Rochester
- Europe
- Italy
- Britain
- Scotland
- Born
- Dublin
- Petrarch
- United States
- Oxford
- Wales
- Wyatt
- Spain
- Harvard
- India
- Boston
- Paris
- Rome
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Bristol
- Canterbury
- Caribbean
- Hopkins
- Greece
- Camden
- Hero
- Dorset
- Mexico
- Massachusetts
- Venice
- Longfellow
- Edinburgh
- Devon
- Heaven
- Boccaccio
- Germany
- Pembroke
- Africa
- Suffolk
- Eton
- Ricicword
- West Indies
First Sentence edit
While the Irish football team played the Soviet Union in 1988, four English poets were confined in a radio studio in Dublin-it was the Writers' Conference-to take part in a round-table discussion.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Michael Schmidt (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Country: England
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0297840142
Page Count: 950
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Country: England
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0297840142
Page Count: 950
Awards edit
- National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist, 1999: Criticism)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 821.009
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