The fourth, and final, Dover poetry anthology I am reviewing. As with the others, it is an easily portable, inexpensive book. Includes work by 58 poets. Ten were born before 1600, another six in the 17th century, twelve in the 18th century, and two in the 20th century. So 28 were born in the 19th c...
This is a "critical edition" by the American William J. Rolfe from 1876 of a selection of the poems of Thomas Gray (1716-1771), a deliciously artful pre-romantic poet who was loathe to release his few poems to the public, publishing only thirteen poems in his lifetime. His most famous poem is the El...