Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics Series) - Softcover

Gwynn, R. S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321087208 ISBN 13: 9780321087201

Publisher: Pearson, 2001

Synopsis

This brief, affordable poetry collection features more than 250 poems and presents a diverse body of work ranging from William Shakespeare and John Milton to Rita Dove and Adrienne Rich.

Longman is proud to present the Penguin Academics Series Edition of Poetry. The Penguin Academics Series, in the tradition of Penguin Publishers, offers highly respected, highly affordable, trade format books by preeminent scholars.

This edition features new “Writing About Poetry” as well as more than 30 new selections, including poems by Florence Cassen Mayers, Sarah Cortez, and Timothy Murphy.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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The ideal alternative to longer anthologies, this brief, affordable collection of more than 250 poems covers the full scope of the poetic tradition.  Chronologically organized, this anthology includes master poets from Spenser, Sidney, and Shakespeare to contemporary artists of the 21st century, reflecting the work of the genre’s most distinguished writers as well as a wide array of diverse voices.

About the Author:

R. S. Gwynn has edited several other books, including Drama: A Pocket Anthology; Literature: A Pocket Anthology; Literature: A Pocket Anthology; Inside Literature: Reading, Responding, Writing (with Steven Zani); The Art of the Short Story (with Dana Gioia); and Contemporary American Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (with April Lindner).  He has also authored five collections of poetry, including No Word of Farewell: Selected Poems, 1970-2000. He has been awarded the Michael Braude Award for verse from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  Gwynn is University Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0321087208
• ISBN 13: 9780321087201
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 480