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Book: Now you can look into Chapman's Homer The Oxford Book of English Verse ed Christopher Ricks Oxford pounds 20
From: The Independent - London
Date: 19991003
Author:ROBERT MACFARLANE
One of the symptoms of pre-millennial tension is the desire to reckon up, and in literary terms this means two things: first, relentless list-making - the greatest books of the Nineties, of the century, of Waterstone's customers, ever - and second, anthologies. Harvill's recently published Twentieth-Century Poetry in English joins a crowd of similarly titled young pretenders. And if Faber continue to bring out their anthologies of writing on science, lists, beasts, booze, and so forth, we'll soon need an anthology of anthologies.
The granddaddy of them all is The Oxford Book of English ...
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