{"product_id":"six-centuries-of-great-poetry-a-stunning-collection-of-classic-british-poems-from-chaucer-to-yeats-9780440213833","title":"Six Centuries of Great Poetry: A Stunning Collection of Classic British Poems from Chaucer to Yeats","description":"Uniquely comprehensive...highly readable...the definitive collection of classic lyric poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Shakespeare's wise music to Marvell's profundity and wit...from the Romantics' passionate view of man and woman and nature to twentieth-centur poets' confused searching, this outstanding one-volume collection brings us the profound, soul-nourishing experience of great poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrilliantly selected and arranged by renowned literary masters Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine, the poems here reflect the genius of six centuries of poets. It is the finest anthology of lyric poetry ever published. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Truth\" by Geoffrey Chaucer\u003cbr\u003e\"Ophelia's Song\" by William Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e\"The Canonization\" by John Donne\u003cbr\u003e\"To Heaven\" by Ben Jonson\u003cbr\u003e\"Ode on Solitude\" by Alexander Pope\u003cbr\u003e\"The Tyger\" by William Blake\u003cbr\u003e\"The Solitary Reaper\" by William Wordsworth\u003cbr\u003e\"Ode to a Nightingale\" by John Keats\u003cbr\u003e\"God's Grandeur\" by Gerard Manley Hopkins\u003cbr\u003e\"Sailing to Byzantium\" by William Butler Yeats \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eand more than ninety additional classic poems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Penn Warren\u003c\/b\u003e taught English at Yale University and was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and one for poetry, and of the National Book Award for poetry. He was the author, with Cleanth Brooks, of \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, and of the novels \u003ci\u003eAll the King's Men, World Enough and Time, Band of Angels, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFlood\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as many other works of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. He died in 1989. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlbert Erskine\u003c\/b\u003e was a vice president and executive editor at Random House in New York. He was also on the staff of \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/i\u003e and was associated with the Louisiana State University Press. He died in 1993.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50324631683346,"sku":"9780440213833","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d0e20127-6f9f-458b-b9db-9dc5f338588b.jpg?v=1727668870","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/six-centuries-of-great-poetry-a-stunning-collection-of-classic-british-poems-from-chaucer-to-yeats-9780440213833","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}