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
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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