ISBN The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry Volume II ( Blake to Heaney ) book 800 pages

This two-volume anthology celebrates four centuries of English poetry from the Elizabethan era to the present day. This the second of the two volumes covers poets from Blake to Heaney and provides an excellent portrayal of a wide variety of eighteenth to twentieth century poets. The richness and variety of this tradition are represented in this collection by all the great and familiar names but also some of the less well-known poets who have often provided startling exceptions to the poetry of their age. The result is a rich and multi-coloured tapestry of the depth diversity and energy of poetry written in Britain and Ireland. Beginning with William Blake this second volume covers many of the Romantic poets (Wordsworth Byron Shelley Keates). It gives a generous survey of nineteenth century verse including that of Tennyson Browning Hopkins and Lewis Carroll with poets from the twentieth-century being represented by poets such as Graves Betjeman Larking Hughes and Heaney.