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The History of English Poetry

by Peter Whitfield
Derek Jacobi
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Great poetry can indeed outlast stone and the glory of princes, and the English poetic tradition is perhaps the richest in the world. This audiobook tells the story of that tradition through its towering figures – Spenser and Shakespeare, Milton and Dryden, Wordsworth and Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson and Eliot – and through scores of other poets. Clear and accessible, blending criticism with imagination and illustrated with scores of quotations, this new history will delight all who care about the past and the future of English poetry.

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  • Release date

    January 11, 2012

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9789629548193
      • File size: 233202 KB
      • Duration: 08:05:50

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Derek Jacobi brings this production together with a clear and lively narration of its introduction. The collection is a general presentation, rather than a scholarly tome, on the evolution of the idea of English poetry (and its American cousins and influences)--and where readers fit into the tradition. In each era, the text addresses the question of what a poem was expected to be and do. These are illustrated by thoughtfully interpreted readings from works by more than a hundred poets by a group of skilled Naxos narrators. This critical history traces poets from Chaucer to Allen Ginsberg. D.M.H. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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