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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud… & Tyger Tyger Burning Bright
Edited by Ana Sampson
Cloud: Hardcover, 192 pages; 2009
Tyger: Hardcover, 191 pages; 2011
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"Whan that April with his showres soote… "I still remember standing in front of my ninth-grade English class to recite the general prologue to "The Canterbury Tales." Alas, my memory of the poem ends there. So I was thrilled that Ana Sampson's anthology of such "poems you half-remember from school" begins with just that verse! From Chaucer's fourteenth-century work to the writing of England's 2009-appointed poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud presents a chronological assortment of beloved poems that are either often memorized or studied or verses that contain well-known lines. Sampson's follow-up volume, Tyger Tyger Burning Bright offers more beloved poems from more than eighty of the world's greatest English-language poets, organized thematically. A handy index in both books allows the reader to search by famous phrases. Of course, language lovers will want to read both anthologies straight through, smiling in recognition at many of the classic works, and perhaps finding some new favorites.
(AG)
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