The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse

The sixteenth century has long been acknowledged the 'Golden Age' of English verse - with such names as Shakespeare, Donne, and Spenser to its credit it could hardly be otherwise. Yet this anthology, which includes both undisputed masterpieces and achievements in hitherto neglected fields, is the first to reveal the full range and diversity of the century's poetic riches. What emerges is the most complete picture available of the poetic vitality of the sixteenth century.

ISBN 0192801953   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780192801951 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 533 Publisher Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxford Paperbacks   Series title Oxford Book of Verse Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780192829719 Publication date 30 May 2002   Height (mm) 196 Library of Congress PR   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 821.308   Spine width (mm) 41 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General Pages 816

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Reviews from previous edition: "This magnificent, heartening book... In handing the whole poetry of the past back to the range of people who wrote it, Jones has passed it forward to us."--Andrew Motion, Observer "For general and specialist readers-- and also for poets--there are things in these 700 and more pages of verse that will quicken the pulses, as they bring home a sense of the immense resources and variety of our poetic inheritance."--Charles Tomlinson, Independent "Every now and again, an anthology is published which is also a real book. That is, the editor's selection shows us new ways of reading a poetry. Such a work is The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse, edited by Emrys Jones: it is like a first-class history, only better because it consists of all the data, and we draw the conclusions for ourselves. This is a volume, then, that being both inclusive and interpretive may be read for pleasure or required as a textbook. And such are its virtues that it might well be used as a handbook in styles by the beginning poet."--Times Literary Supplement "Quite splendid, a veritable treasure house... this New Oxford Book of 16th-Century Verse is to be resoundingly recommended."--London Review of Books

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