William Maclurg Smyth

A collection that introduced many young people to poetry. It begins with Chaucer, Raleigh and Spenser, and it includes Shakespeare's finest. Unashamedly British, it offers the great works in excerpts palatable to young people: Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Tennyson, and there is a fine collection of war poetry from WW1. If words from a poem linger in your memory, it's probably from this book.

Poetry