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    100 Favorite English and Irish Poems
    100 Favorite English and Irish Poems
    100 Favorite English and Irish Poems
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    100 Favorite English and Irish Poems

    By Clarence C. Strowbridge

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    This compact anthology contains many of the best works of 59 poets writing in English—from the complex rhyme schemes of Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser and lovely sonnets of the preeminent English poet and playwright William Shakespeare to William Blake's visionary works and John Keats' profound insights into the nature of beauty, art, and mortality.
    Here also are beloved poems by Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Burns, William Butler Yeats, Rupert Brooke, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and 43 other great English, Irish, and Scottish writers.
    In addition to a concise introduction, this volume provides brief commentaries on the poets represented. The result is a carefully selected anthology that will be studied and treasured by students and poetry lovers alike.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateApr 4, 2012
    ISBN9780486113289
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    • 3/5
      100 Favorite English and Irish Poems is a rare find. An inexpensive book that sticks to, and I think accomplishes, its goal - to provide a starting point for exploring English and Irish poetry. No more; no less. The poems are arranged chronologically based on the individual author's birth year. There is a brief explanation of each author's inspiration for the selected poems, and a little information about author themselves.Aside from 2 or 3 days in second grade when my teacher taught the class about haiku, none of my K through 12th grade teachers saw fit to have their students study poetry. I did not take any poetry classes in college. For me, with no foundation in poetry, this book is a good start. Very limited, with a very narrow focus, but a starting point. I know that the selection of poetry, and poets, in this book is an infinitesimal representation of the world of poetry, and poets. I'd like to see Dover publish a "Favorite Poems" series that covers many more cultures, and ethnicities.
    • 3/5
      I definitely prefer the more modern poetry.

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    100 Favorite English and Irish Poems - Clarence C. Strowbridge

    EDMUND SPENSER (1552?–1599)

    The complex rhyme scheme of Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser was an inspiration to poets like Keats, Lord Byron, Shelley, and others. The Spenserian sonnet can be found throughout his major work, The Faerie Queene (1596), and in the following stanza from Amoretti (1595), a sequence of eighty-eight sonnets dedicated to the lady who eventually became his wife.

    Sonnet 75

    One day I wrote her name upon the strand,

    But came the waves and washèd it away:

    Agayne I wrote it with a second hand,

    But came the tyde, and made my paynes his pray.²⁰

    Vayne man, sayd she,"that doest in vaine assay,

    A mortall thing so to immortalize,

    For I my selve shall lyke to this decay,

    And eek²¹ my name bee wypèd out lykewize."

    Not so, quod²² I,"let baser things devize,

    To dy in dust, but you shall live by fame:

    My verse your vertues rare shall eternize,

    And in the heavens wryte your glorious name.

    Where whenas death shall all the world subdew, Our love shall live, and later life renew."

    SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554–1586)

    This Renaissance poet was a leading member of Queen Elizabeth’s court, a statesman, and a soldier. He fought in the war against Spain and received a fatal wound during the battle at Zutphen at age thirty-two. The following verse is from one of the great sonnet sequences Astrophil and Stella (ca. 1581), which was published

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