The Oxford Book of Twentieth-century English Verse


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Anthology of about 600 poems from more than 200 twentieth century English poets.




The Penguin Book of English Verse


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This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet.







Medieval English Verse


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Short narrative poems, religious and secular lyrics, and moral, political, and comic verses are all included in this comprehensive collection of works from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.







The Eighteenth-Century British Verse Epistle


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This is the first book to cover the whole range of epistolary verse in the period, including the discursive type favoured by Pope and the familiar and dramatic epistles. It advances a new model for defining the form, demonstrates the form's importance in the period, and pays attention to non-canonical epistles by women and labouring-class writers.




Visible Song


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This book throws light on the debate about the 'orality' or 'literacy' of Old English verse, whether it was transmitted orally or written down.







Holy Bible (NIV)


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The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.




Five centuries of English verse


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