Compact anthology of the best-known works by many of the greatest poets writing in English, from Shakespeare and Marlowe to D. H. Lawrence and Yeats. Other poets include Blake, Donne, Pope, Byron, Burns, Wordsworth, Hardy, Christina Rossetti, and many more. Dover Original selection.

Compact anthology features many of the best works by 59 poets writing in English -- from the complex rhyme schemes of Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser and Shakespeare's lovely sonnets to William Blake's visionary works and John Keats' profound insights into the nature of beauty, art, and mortality. Includes an introduction and brief commentaries on the poets represented.