Presents a variety of classic and contemporary British and American narrative poems, including "Jabberwocky," "Annabel Lee," "Sir Patrick Spens," and "The Highwayman"

This is a story-book, universal in its appeal and representative of a literary tradition from Chaucer to Auden. Its tales are of various kinds - romantic, humorous, ghostly, and gory, written over the past six hundred years.Here will be found Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' and Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner'; the tale of John Gilpin and of the Idiot Boy; 'The Lady of Shalott', 'The Pied Piper', and Lewis Carroll's 'The Hunting of the Snark'. In the twentieth century the narrative tradition is exemplified by Chesterton andMasefield, Charles Causley and C. Day-Lewis, amongst others.Most of the fifty-nine poems in this collection are given in their entirety, but abridgements and extracts from book-length narratives such as 'The Faerie Queene' and 'Paradise Lost' add to the richness and variety.

An anthology of American poems, is arranged chronologically, from colonial alphabet rhymes to Native American cradle songs to contemporary poems. 50 illustrations, 20 in color.

A collection of poems by English poets.

A late-flowering poet who was the imaginative voice of the chronically ignored and a witty sceptic of conventional thinking.

Poets through the ages offer interpretations of love's changing moods and forms.

Redefines the great canon of American poetry from its origins in the 17th century right up to the present.