Poets of the English language /? edited by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson.

Contents

v. 1. Langland to Spenser v. 2. Marlowe to Marvell v. 3. Milton to Goldsmith v. 4. Blake to Poe v. 5. Tennyson to Yeats.

This is a lovely 5 volume set in good condition. They were published in 1970 covering the 14th century to Yeats, as selected by poet, W.H. Auden.

here is one readers online comment.

"In any anthology of this nature it is the quality of the editor that becomes most important. Who is deciding which poets and poems are worthy of inclusion? These are the choices of one of the great poets of the 20th century.

There were several poets unknown to me before this collection -- including Hartley David Coleridge (Samuel Taylor's son). He is considered by some to be one of the foremost modern English sonneteers. He deserves the reputation."

Happy bidding.