Rare Book - The Albatross Book Of Living Verse English & American Poetry Hardcover Book

Title: Rare Book - The Albatross Book Of Living Verse English & American Poetry Hardcover Book.
Author: Edited By Louis Untermeyer.
Type: Poetry.
Edition: First Edition, 1933 / (wikipedia.)
Publisher: W. Collins Sons and Co, Ltd, London.
Year First Published: .
Format: HardSoftcover Book.
Printed By: Printed In Great Britain.
Page Count: 655 pages.
Width: 12.0cm
Height: 18.5cm
Thickness: 2.3cm
Info: The Albatross Book Of Living verse English and American poetry From the Thirteenth Century to the Present Day, Edited by Louis Untermeyer.
From the Eearly Ballads and Early songs of unknown dates in the English language through to Chaucer, Henry the 8th, Walter Raleigh, to Shakespeare in the Sixteenth Century and beyond to Marlowe, John Milton to William Blake in the 1700's, Robert Burns and Wordsworth, Byron and Shelley to Longfellow in the 1800'.
As well as Edgar Allen Poe, Tennyson and Robert Browning with Emily Dickinson and Lewis Carroll and Thomas Hardy, to Rudyard Kipling and Yeats and e.e.cummings, all the great masters are included in this masterpiece of poetry.
Louis Untermeyer was the author, editor or compiler, and translator of more than one hundred books for readers of all ages. He will be best remembered as the prolific anthologist whose collections have introduced students to contemporary American poetry since 1919. The son of an established New York jeweler, Untermeyer's interest in poetry led to friendships with poets from three generations, including many of the century's major writers. His tastes were eclectic. Martin Weil related in the Washington Post that Untermeyer once "described himself as 'a bone collector' with 'the mind of a magpie.'" He was a liberal who did much to allay the Victorian myth that poetry is a high-brow art. "What most of us don't realize is that everyone loves poetry," he was quoted by Weil as saying, pointing out the rhymes on the once-ubiquitous Burma Shave road signs as an example.
Condition: Very Good, all pages and binding intact, no loose pages, previous owners names on Front papers, no other notations or inscriptions.
Price: R 255.00 Inc Vat.