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Fifteen poets : Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Cowper, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Browning, Tennyson, Arnold

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Type of record: Book

Title: Fifteen poets : Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Cowper, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Browning, Tennyson, Arnold

Level: Item

Classmark: BC 20c Douglas FIF

Additional creator(s): Bridgen, John William (Former owner)

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Publication city: Oxford

Date(s): 1941

Language: English

Size and medium: xiv, 503 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/188776

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008779169705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

"Selections... preceded by short essays of appreciation by various hands, and by summaries of the poets' lives."- Pref.

Contents: Geoffrey Chaucer, by H. S. Bennett.--Edmund Spenser, by C. S. Lewis.--William Shakespeare, by P. Alexander.--John Milton, by E. M. W. Tillyard.--John Dryden, by Bonamy Dobree.--Alexander Pope, by G. Tillotson.--William Cowper, by J. R. Sutherland.--William Wordsworth, by F. L. Lucas.--Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by M. R. Ridley.--George Gordon Bryon, by W. H. Auden.--Percy Bysshe Shelley, by E. C. Blunden.--John Keats, by L. MacNeice.--Alfred Tennyson, by H. Wolfe.-Robert Browning, by H. B. Charlton.--Matthew Arnold, by H. W. Garrod.

Additional description

First edition, second impression. Ink signature of Keith Douglas on flyleaf, giving his unit etc. his pencil signature below, dated 20 Sept. 1942

Provenance

From the Bridgen, McEachran, Moore Collection of W. H. Auden and Thirties Poets, gifted to Leeds University Libraries by John Bridgen.

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