Oxford Classics: Poetry
A Treasury of English-Language Verse from Medieval Ballads to Modern Symbolist MeditationsBy Alfred Tennyson, John Keats, Emily Brontë, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Butler Yeats, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Lang, Robert Louis Stevenson, T. W. Rolleston, Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Thomas Wyatt, George MacDonald, George Meredith, Robert Browning, Thomas Love Peacock, Robert Burns, Oliver Goldsmith, Alexander Pope, John Milton, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gilbert Parker
Length72h 28m
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Oxford Classics: Poetry surveys the capacious traditions of English-language verse, moving from medieval narrative and Renaissance lyric to Romantic vision, Victorian meditation, and transatlantic modernity. Its range encompasses sonnet, ballad, ode, dramatic monologue, pastoral, gothic reverie, patriotic song, and expansive free verse. Canonical achievements stand beside evocative shorter works, allowing Shakespearean lyric, Chaucerian storytelling, Romantic imagination, and Whitman's democratic cadences to illuminate poetry's changing forms and public purposes. The contributors collectively trace a literary history shaped by courtly culture, Reformation and Renaissance humanism, Augustan satire, Romanticism, Victorian aesthetic and social debate, Celtic revivalism, imperial encounter, and American self-fashioning. Voices associated with Scotland, Ireland, England, and the United States enlarge the volume's cultural map, while women poets and writers of markedly different temperaments complicate any single account of tradition. Across centuries, these poets test inherited meters and genres against questions of love, mortality, nature, nation, faith, artistic vocation, and individual liberty. Recommended for students and general readers alike, this anthology offers an unusually concentrated opportunity to compare styles, eras, and poetic philosophies within one volume. Its educational value lies not merely in its canon of memorable poems, but in the dialogue it creates among divergent voices: formal and experimental, intimate and public, visionary and satirical. Readers will find a rich foundation for studying poetic craft and literary history.
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GenrePoetry
Length72 hrs 28 mins
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Publish dateNov 9, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels (Annotated)
2PREFACE
3INTRODUCTION
4NVMA POMPILIVS (?): 1. Fragments of the Saliar Hymns
5THE ARVAL BROTHERHOOD: 2. Against Plague upon the Harvest
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6ANONYMOUS
73. Charms
84. An Ancient Lullaby
95. Epitaphs of the Scipios
10L. LIVIVS ANDRONICVS
116. Fragments of the Odyssey
127. Dramatic Fragments
13CN. NAEVIVS
148. Fragments of the Bellum Poenicum
159. Dramatic Fragments
1610. His Own Epitaph
17T. MACCIVS PLAVTVS: 11. His Own Epitaph
18MARCIVS VATES
1912. Precepts
2013. Vaticinium
21Q. ENNIVS
2214. The Vision of Ilia
2315. Romulus and Remus
2416. The Speech of Pyrrhus
2517. Character of a Friend of Servilius9
2618. M. Cornelius Cethegus
2719. Caelius resists the Onset of the Istri
2820. Toga Cedit Armis
2921. Lesser Fragments of the Annals
3022. Alcmaeon
3123. Andromache
3224. Cassandra
3325. ii
3426. Telamon
3527. Telamon
3628. Molestum Otium
3729. Medeae Nutrix
3830. From the Iphigenia
3931. Epitaph for Scipio Africanus
4032. The Same
4133. Scipio to Ennius
4234. His own Epitaph
43M. PACVVIVS
4435. Fortune
4536. The Greeks set sail from Troy
4637. Genitabile Caelum
4738. Speech
4839. Womanish Tears
4940. His Own Epitaph
50L. ACCIVS
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