Norman Holmes Pearson

Auden and Holmes Pearson's selection is magnificent and exemplary. In addition to the usual suspects (Byron, Keats, Shelley, the rest of the guys in the band, a la Sergeant Hathaway), there's a whole slew of poets who don't get much facetime in the reviews of Romantic poetry.

A five volume set of poetry, covering the 14th century to Yeats, as selected by poet, W.H. Auden.

In any anthology of this nature it is the quality of the editor that becomes most important. Who is deciding which poets and poems are worthy of inclusion? These are the choices of one of the great poets of the 20th century.

There were several poets unknown to me before this collection -- including Hartley David Coleridge (Samuel Taylor's son). He is considered by some to be one of the foremost show more modern English sonneteers. He deserves the reputation. show less