ABSTRACT

The Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets collects together writings by all the major poetic figures from Chaucer to Yeats demonstrating their vivid responses to each other, ranging from elegiac eulogy to burlesque and satire.
The anthology is arranged in two sections.
Part One contains poets' writings on the nature, qualities and purpose of poetry
Part Two is a chronological collection of poets' writings on their peers, with an individual entry for each poet.
Each extract is presented in modernized spelling and punctuation, and is carefully annotated to provide full explanations of unfamiliar phrases and references. The index has been fully revised for this paperback edition.
The Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets will be stimulating and enjoyable for anyone interested in the history of English poetry, but will also be an invaluable collection of primary source material for students and their teachers.

chapter |18 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter |50 pages

Part One

part |2 pages

Part Two ON POETS

chapter |24 pages

Poets of the 14th and 15th centuries

chapter |2 pages

Edward Fairfax (d. 1635)

chapter |18 pages

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

chapter |20 pages

John Donne (1572–1631)

chapter |1 pages

Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608–66)

chapter |17 pages

John Milton (1608–74)

chapter |8 pages

Richard Crashaw (?1612–49)

chapter |14 pages

Richard Lovelace (1618–57)

chapter |2 pages

Thomas Parnell (1679–1718)

chapter |16 pages

Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

chapter |1 pages

Mark Akenside (1721–1770)

chapter |5 pages

Christopher Smart (1722–71)

chapter |4 pages

Thomas Chatterton (1752–70)

chapter |26 pages

William Blake (1757–1827)

chapter |5 pages

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824)

chapter |14 pages

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

chapter |15 pages

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92)

chapter |9 pages

INDEXES

Index 1: Poets