| Description |
xxvi pages, 1, leaves, 5-951 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Modern library of the world's best books |
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Modern library of the world's best books.
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| Note |
"First Modern library giant edition, 1945." |
| Contents |
Partial contents: The passionate man's pilgrimage / Sir Walter Raleigh -- from Hero and Leander / Christopher Marlowe -- Shadwell / John Dryden -- from An essay on criticism / Alexander Pope -- Believe me, if all those endearing young charms / Thomas Moore -- Choruses from Prometheus unbound / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The darkling thrush / Thomas Hardy -- Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats -- Forty singing seamen / Alfred Noyes -- Song: To the tune of "Frankie & Johnny" / W. H. Auden -- Inspiration / Henry David Thoreau -- Opposition / Sidney Lanier -- The eagle and the mole / Elinor Wylie -- Einstein / Archibald MacLeish -- Praise for an urn / Hart Crane -- Revelation / Robert Penn Warren -- God said, "I made a man" / Jose Garcia Villa. |
| Subject |
English poetry.
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American poetry.
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| Added Author |
Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950. Anthology of Famous English and American poetry. New York, Modern library [1945] (OCoLC)609462109 |
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