The Viking Portable Library Poets of the English Language
by W. H. Auden 
, Norman Holmes Pearson
Poets of the English Language (Collections and Selections — Complete in Five Volumes)
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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 modern English sonneteers. He deserves the reputation.
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 modern English sonneteers. He deserves the reputation.
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W. H. Auden, who was born in York, England, on February 21, 1907, is one of the most successful and well-known poets of the 20th century. Educated at Oxford, Auden served in the Spanish Civil War, which greatly influenced his work. He also taught in public schools in Scotland and England during the 1930s. It was during this time that he rose to show more public fame with such works as "Paid on Both Sides" and "The Orators." Auden eventually immigrated to the United States, becoming a citizen in 1946. It was in the U.S. that he met his longtime partner Chester Kallman. Stylistically, Auden was known for his incomparable technique and his linguistic innovations. The term Audenesque became an adjective to describe the contemporary sounding speech reflected in his poems. Auden's numerous awards included a Bollingen Prize in Poetry, A National Book Award for "The Shield of Achilles," a National Medal for Literature from the National Book Committee, and a Gold Medal from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Numerous volumes of his poetry remain available today, including "About the House" and "City Without Walls." W.H. Auden died on September 28, 1973 in Vienna. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Poets of the English Language (Collections and Selections — Complete in Five Volumes)
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- Canonical title
- The Viking Portable Library Poets of the English Language
- Original title
- Poets of the English Language 1: Medieval and Renaissance Poets, Langland to Spenser; Poets of the English Language 2: Elizabethan and Jacobean Poets, Marlowe to Marvell; Poets of the English Language 3: Restoration and Augustan Poets, Milton to Goldsmith; Poets of the English Language 4: Romantic Poets, Blake to Poe; Poets of the English Language 5: Victorian and Edwardian Poets, Tennyson to Yeats
- Original publication date
- 1950-09
- Original language
- English UK; English US
- Disambiguation notice
- This is for the complete 5 volume set. Please do not combine it with individual volumes in the series.
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- Poetry, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 821.082 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English poetry English poetry {by more than one author} [Collections of English poetry not limited by time period or kind of form now in 821.008]
- LCC
- PR1175 .A76 — Language and Literature English English Literature Collections of English literature
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