Table of Contents

Introduction Claude Rawson; 1. Geoffrey Chaucer J. A. Burrow; 2. Sir Thomas Wyatt Roland Greene; 3. Edmund Spenser Richard McCabe; 4. William Shakespeare David Bevington; 5. John Donne Achsah Guibbory; 6. Ben Jonson Colin Burrow; 7. George Herbert Helen Wilcox; 8. John Milton Martin Evans; 9. Andrew Marvell Nigel Smith; 10. John Dryden David Hopkins; 11. Jonathan Swift Claude Rawson; 12. Alexander Pope Paul Baines; 13. William Blake Morton D. Paley; 14. Robert Burns Karl Miller; 15. William Wordsworth Simon Jarvis; 16. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Seamus Perry; 17. George Gordon, Lord Byron Anne Barton; 18. Percy Bysshe Shelley James Chandler; 19. John Keats Susan Wolfson; 20. Alfred, Lord Tennyson Herbert Tucker; 21. Robert Browning J. Hillis Miller; 22. Emily Bronte Dinah Birch; 23. Christina Rossetti Linda Peterson; 24. Thomas Hardy Peter Robinson; 25. W. B. Yeats James Longenbach; 26. D. H. Lawrence Marjorie Perloff; 27. T. S. Eliot Michael North; 28. W. H. Auden Edward Mendelson; 29. Philip Larkin Alan Jenkins; Further reading; Index.

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This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.

About the Author

Claude Rawson is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University.

Reviews

'Rawson himself authors the article on Swift … in which he considers the different ways in Pope's and Swift's poetic reputations have suffered and been recovered.' The Eighteenth Century