A short story anthology containing one selection from each of 63 American authors. Arranged chronologically from Irving's "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" through Ann Beattie's "A Reasonable Man," which was written in 1976.
A celebration of English verse. Includes poems by William Blake, Christopher Smart, Robert Louis Stevenson, Christiana Rossetti, Walter de la Mare, Eleanor Farjeon, Ted Hughes, Charles Causley, and many others.
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A Compendium of best-loved verse, this giant anthology of over 440 poems contains many of the favorite poems of the American people. Thios volume celebrates the ability of poetry to capture in a few words the thoughts and emotions that reach to the heart of human experience.
The Golden Treasury is one of the most loved anthologies of English poetry ever published. The book was meticulously compiled by poet and scholar Francis Turner Palgrave, in collaboration with Alfred Tennyson, who was then poet laureate. It is arranged chronologically in four books which each celebrate a different era in the evolution of English poetry, from Elizabethan to the 19th century. All the greats are here, including Shakespeare and Milton, Marvell and Pope, Wordsworth and Keats. First published in 1861, it became the standard anthology for over 100 years. This Macmillan Collector’s Library edition includes a foreword by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and is published to mark Macmillan’s 175th anniversary.