The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse - Hardcover

Opie, Iona

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0192141317 ISBN 13: 9780192141316

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1996

Synopsis

This is a story-book in verse, universal in its appeal and representative of a literary tradition from Chaucer to Auden. Its tales are of various kinds - romantic, humorous, ghostly, and gory, written at any time over the past six hundred years.

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Review:

"Iona and Peter Opie...had the brilliant idea of making a collection of the narrative verse which has for so long been part of the background of our imaginative lives. My own reaction to the book has been one of enchantment."--Daily Telegraph (London) "Iona and Peter Opie...had the brilliant idea of making a collection of the narrative verse which has for so long been part of the background of our imaginative lives. My own reaction to the book has been one of enchantment."--Daily Telegraph (London) "Iona and Peter Opie...had the brilliant idea of making a collection of the narrative verse which has for so long been part of the background of our imaginative lives. My own reaction to the book has been one of enchantment."--Daily Telegraph (London) "Iona and Peter Opie...had the brilliant idea of making a collection of the narrative verse which has for so long been part of the background of our imaginative lives. My own reaction to the book has been one of enchantment."--Daily Telegraph (London)

About the Author:

About the Editors Iona Opie and the late Peter Opie have written numerous other books, including Children's Games in Street and Playground, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, and The Oxford Book of Children's Verse.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0192141317
• ISBN 13: 9780192141316
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 420