🔥Helen Gardner The new Oxford book of English verse (1250-1950)

Selected and edited by Helen Gardner, the collection explores the development of English poetry through a wide range of poets, styles and literary traditions, from early verse to the work of major modern writers.

With its extensive selection, editorial notes and indexes of authors and first lines, this volume is both a substantial anthology and a useful reference work for readers, students and collectors of English literature. It offers an opportunity to discover familiar classics alongside less widely known poets in a single, carefully edited collection.

Bibliographical details: Helen Gardner (editor), The New Oxford Book of English Verse (1250–1950). Oxford University Press, 1985 reprint. 974 pages. With notes, references and indexes. Hardcover with dust jacket.

Condition: Very good. Hardcover with dust jacket.