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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918

10 best books like The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918 (Arthur Quiller-Couch): Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America, Poems, How Does a Poem Mean?, Ounce Dice Trice, The Mentor Book of Major American Poets, The Complete English Poems, Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert, Selected Poems, Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry / Legends of Charlemagne, The Golden Treasury of Poetry

Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America
AuthorPaul S. Martin
ISBN0520231414
As recently as 11,000 years ago—"near time" to geologists—mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science's greatest riddles, these large animals...
Poems
AuthorC.S. Lewis
ISBN0156027690
"This is the best—the glorious best—of Lewis. For here, with the gemlike beauty and hardness that poetry alone can achieve, are his ideas about the nature of things that lay behind his writings."—Christianity Today

Known worldwide for his fiction and philosophical essays, C.S. Lewis...
How Does a Poem Mean?
AuthorJohn Ciardi
ISBN0395186056
~ The question to put to the poem is not "What does it mean?" but "How does it mean?"
"What does it mean?" inevitably invites paraphrase and inevitably leads away from the poem.
"How does it mean?" is best asked by absorbing the poetic structure as a poetic structure, i.e., as a countermotion across...
Ounce Dice Trice
AuthorAlastair Reid
ISBN1590173201
What can words be, or rather, what can’t they be? Poet Alastair Reid introduces children and adults to the wondrous waywardness of words in Ounce Dice Trice, a delicious confection and a wildly unexpected exploration of sound and sense and nonsense that is like nothing else. Reid offers light words...
The Mentor Book of Major American Poets
AuthorOscar Williams
ISBN0451627911
Many of the poets are great, and all have at least one or two great poems as well as at least a couple more worth reading, but much of this anthology was a slog for me.

I love Dickinson, and Whitman, and Pound, Stevens, Cummings, and Auden. I got my first taste of a selection of several of the poets,...
The Complete English Poems
AuthorGeorge Herbert
ISBN0140424555
George Herbert combined the intellectual and the spiritual, the humble and the divine, to create some of the most moving devotional poetry in the English language. His deceptively simple verse uses the ingenious arguments typical of seventeenth-century 'metaphysical' poets, and unusual imagery...
Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert
AuthorJohn Drury
ISBN1846142482
For the first time, John Drury convincingly integrates the life and poetry of George Herbert, giving us in Music at Midnight the definitive biography of the man behind some of the most famous poems in the English Language.

'Love bade me welcome . . .'

'Teach me my God and King . . .'


George...
Selected Poems
AuthorEdna St. Vincent Millay
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes and oh, my friends---
It gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay's poetry came as a surprise to me. I had heard of her before but never read anything by her. I found her to appeal to something within me. I had just...
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry / Legends of Charlemagne
AuthorThomas Bulfinch
ISBN0808501747
For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity; Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myths; and the age of chivalry have been known.
The stories are divided into three sections: The Age...
The Golden Treasury of Poetry
AuthorLouis Untermeyer
ISBN0307608522
"This is a book to grow on. This is a book to grow with. In these pages are poems that will become favorites; you will never lose your taste for them. They will be part of you as long as you live. These verses - the nimble and nonsensical as well as the greatly meaningful- delighted me when I was young. They still...
The Oxford Book of English Verse
AuthorChristopher Ricks
ISBN0192141821
Here is a treasure-house of over seven centuries of English poetry, chosen and introduced by Christopher Ricks, whom Auden described as "exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding." The Oxford Book of English Verse, created in 1900 by Arthur Quiller-Couch and selected anew in 1972 by Helen...
New Enlarged Pocket Anthology of Robert Frost's Poems
AuthorRobert Frost
As I read more poetry, I'm starting to appreciate how little I appreciate it -- or at least the narrative form. I don't understand the point of narrative poetry. Why not just write a story? The point of these "verses" would make more sense in paragraphs.
As far as I can tell (granted, I only lasted 61...
The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose
AuthorW.B. Yeats
ISBN0743227980
Throughout his long life, William Butler Yeats -- Irish writer and premier lyric poet in English in this century -- produced important works in every literary genre, works of astonishing range, energy, erudition, beauty, and skill. His early poetry is memorable and moving. His poems and plays of middle...
The George MacDonald Treasury
AuthorGeorge MacDonald
ISBN0978891430
s/t: : Princess and the Goblin, Princess and Curdie, Light Princess, Phantastes, Giant's Heart, At the Back of the North Wind, Golden Key, and Lilith
This enchanted collection brings together eight of George McDonald's most well known fantasies into one delightful volume. The George McDonald...
Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected
AuthorStanley Kunitz
ISBN0393316157
"Winner of the 1995 National Book Award, Passing Through confirms that the venerable doyen of American poetry is still a poet in his prime."—Atlantic Monthly

Stanley Kunitz, one of the masters of contemporary poetry, presents his ninth collection, gathering a rich selection of his work,...
Hopkins: Poems
AuthorGerard Manley Hopkins
ISBN0679444696
The poet feels nature, life, so deeply he is overwhelmed. He sometimes invents words and grammar to express his ecstasy. I just love Hopkins for this, for his passion.

Two of my favorite poems:


Pied Beauty

Glory be to G-d for dappled things-
For skies of couple-colour...
New and Collected Poems
AuthorRichard Wilbur
ISBN0156654911
Reading the first half of this volume was giving me an inferiority complex as a poet. But as I made my way progressively backward through his work I eventually became bored. Wilbur writes so consistently beautifully in his maturity that his earlier poems rarely compare, though in Ceremony, we do get...
The Collected Poems
AuthorRupert Brooke
ISBN1426411111
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
Up the Line to Death: The War Poets 1914-1918: an anthology
AuthorBrian Gardner
ISBN0413595706
Years ago, one of my teachers spoke of the importance of five minute books. His point being that no time needed to be wasted. Waiting for a bus, read the book you carried with you for that purpose. Waiting in the dentist or doctor, the same book. In a traffic jam, don't get angry and road ragey, open your little...
Works of Alexander Pope
AuthorAlexander Pope
ISBN1853264318
In One Volume Complete. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as...
Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian Guide to Six Shakespeare Plays
AuthorPeter J. Leithart
ISBN1885767234
Shakespeare was, as Caesar says of Cassius, "a great observer," able to see and depict patterns of events and character. He understood how politics is shaped by the clash of men with various colorings of self-interest and idealism, how violence breeds violence, how fragile human beings create masks...
Cassell's Standard Latin Dictionary
AuthorD.P. Simpson
ISBN0025225804
Since its first appearance in 1854, this dictionary has remained constant in its appeal to scholars through its many revisions. This Latin dictionary is among the best of its kind, reliable, compact and adequate for the needs of all save the specialist. Simpson has produced a book typographically...
Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poems to Memorize
AuthorJohn Hollander
ISBN1885983158
What I like about this book is its emphasis on reading poetry with the correct itonation. Then again, I read Hollander's Sound and Sense, so he really believes in sound being a big part of poetic form.

Anyway, this particular collection is divided into five categories (ranging from "Sonnets"...
It Couldn't Just Happen (Classical Conv): Fascinating Facts about God's World
AuthorLawrence O. Richards
ISBN0849935830
I've just found this book for $2, so I've ordered it. Mad or what? LOL. It was the 'warmth' of the reviews that got me going.

Directions for reading the reviews on this book:

1. Find a long scarf.
2. Tie it around your jaw in a knot - or a bow - on top of your head.
3. Put down your coffee,...
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