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Indigo A history of British poetry: from the earliest times to beginning twentieth century | Erin Mills Town Centre
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Listen to a thousand years of verse in one sweeping, lucid account. Poetry changes; the language remains. F. St. John Corbett traces British poetry from its earliest surviving songs and medieval makers through the Renaissance, the Augustans, the Romantics, and the great romantic and Victorian poets, arriving at the unsettled edge of early twentieth century poetry. This is a British poetry survey with a critic's ear: how themes shift with faith, politics, empire, and urban life; how English poets and poems answer one another across centuries; how poetic forms and meters evolve from alliterative line to blank verse, ode, sonnet, and modern experiment. It reads as a literary history reference you can dip into, yet it also holds a clear argumentative thread, making it ideal for a poetry criticism study or for anyone building a grounded history of English literature, from Chaucer to T S Eliot. For the casual reader, it offers orientation and discovery: names to seek out, movements to recognise, and a sense of medieval to modern Britain heard in cadence and image. For the classroom, it stands as a classic college literature textbook and a practical poetry students study guide for rereading familiar favourites with sharper attention. For collectors, it preserves an era of scholarship that helped shape how the canon was taught and debated. Still readable today. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure.
Listen to a thousand years of verse in one sweeping, lucid account. Poetry changes; the language remains. F. St. John Corbett traces British poetry from its earliest surviving songs and medieval makers through the Renaissance, the Augustans, the Romantics, and the great romantic and Victorian poets, arriving at the unsettled edge of early twentieth century poetry. This is a British poetry survey with a critic's ear: how themes shift with faith, politics, empire, and urban life; how English poets and poems answer one another across centuries; how poetic forms and meters evolve from alliterative line to blank verse, ode, sonnet, and modern experiment. It reads as a literary history reference you can dip into, yet it also holds a clear argumentative thread, making it ideal for a poetry criticism study or for anyone building a grounded history of English literature, from Chaucer to T S Eliot. For the casual reader, it offers orientation and discovery: names to seek out, movements to recognise, and a sense of medieval to modern Britain heard in cadence and image. For the classroom, it stands as a classic college literature textbook and a practical poetry students study guide for rereading familiar favourites with sharper attention. For collectors, it preserves an era of scholarship that helped shape how the canon was taught and debated. Still readable today. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure.
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