Lives of the Poets: The Story of One Thousand Years of English and American PoetrySimon and Schuster, 1959 - 757 pages A chronologically arranged anthology and history of poetry supplemented with biographies of the poets. |
Contents
THE BACKGROUND | 1 |
FATHER OF ENGLISH POETRY | 9 |
John Skelton | 55 |
Copyright | |
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