This thorough revision renders the remarkable range of styles, subjects and voices in English language poetry, from Walt Whitman and Thomas Hardy in the late 19th century to Carol Ann Duffy and Sherman Alexie in the 21st. With 195 poets and 1596 poems, the volumes richly represent the major figures: Yeats, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Hughes, Olson, Bishop, Larkin, Plath; Rich; Heaney and Walcott amongst others. It also gives full voice to post colonial and transnational poets, ethnic American poetries, experimental traditions and the long poem. Each volume concludes with a poetics section that provides essential contexts for reading the poems.

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