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The Oxford Book of English Verse.(Review)(Brief Article)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20000501
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The Oxford Book of English Verse. Christopher Ricks, editor. Oxford University Press. [pounds]25.00. 690 pages. ISBN 0-19-214182-1. The first Oxford Book of English Verse was published in 1900 under the editorship of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and this was revised in 1972 by the redoubtable Dame Helen Gardner. After twenty-eight years it is not unreasonable to bring this famous anthology, perhaps the most famous anthology of English poetry, up to date. The third editor has included poetry up to that written by Seamus Heaney in this collection of over 820 poems. The editor has ...

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