London - A History in Verse

Informationen zum Autor Mark Ford is a poet and Professor of English at University College London. Klappentext London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Now poet Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems about London to date! from Chaucer to Wordsworth to the present day! providing a chronological tour of urban life and of English literature. Nearly all of the major poets of British literature have left some poetic record of London: Chaucer! Spenser! Shakespeare! Milton! Dryden! Johnson! Wordsworth! Byron! and T. S. Eliot. Ford goes beyond these figures! however! to gather significant verse of all kinds. Zusammenfassung London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems about London to date! from Chaucer to Wordsworth to the present day! providing a chronological tour of urban life and of English literature. The volume includes an introductory essay by the poet.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Ford, Mark (EDT) Ford
• Assisted by: Mark Ford (Editor)
• Publisher: Belknap press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2012
• EAN: 9780674065680
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06568-0
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 240 mm x 50 mm
• Series: The Belknap Press
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Englische Literatur, London