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This anthology brings together, in one single collection, the best and the most popular short lyrical poems from a period so rich in variety, scope and poetic craft that it could rightly be labelled the Golden Age of English Poetry. Ranging from the late eighteenth century to the Great War, the selections spans 132 years of unparalled poetic output, featuring more thatn 200 extraordinary poems by sicty poets as oustanding as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Emily Brönte, Christina Rosetti, the Borwnings, Hopkins and Hardy. The overarching, global structure of the anthology is governed by the cycles of day, year, and life - beginning with morning, childhood and spring, and moving on through twenty-three vital movements, pertaining to different phases, towards night, winter and death.
