Immortal Poets: Their Lives and Verse

Immortal Poets: Their Lives and Verse

Now with touch screen navigation for Kindle Fire and iPad. For students and poetry lovers old and new, Immortal Poets offers a deep selection from the works of the greatest English and American poets, along with brief biographies of each one and a portrait of the times they lived in. There are fascinating people behind the great poems. In this new anthology, and Christopher Burns has brought them to life. Equal to more than a thousand pages in print, the book includes 547 poems and 120 poets from Beowulf to Robert Frost. About 200 of the poems appear in The Seashell Anthology and in The Norton Anthologyâ€”they are the classics. But Immortal Poets goes deeper: Shakespeare (27), Dickinson (21), Millay (16), Whitman (15), Sandburg (14), and Frost (13). It also includes the full text of such long works as â€œThe Waste Land,â€ â€Rime of the Ancient Mariner,â€ â€œEvangeline,â€ and â€œThe Raven,â€ as well as generous excerpts from â€œBeowulfâ€, Chaucerâ€™s â€œCanterbury Talesâ€, Whitmanâ€™s â€œSong of Myselfâ€, and FitzGeraldâ€™s â€œRubaiyat of Omar Khayyamâ€.

The stories behind the poems are wonderful: John Wilmot had John Dryden beaten up in an alley by thugs, Alexander Pope traveled with a Great Dane and two loaded pistols to protect himself from critics he had insulted. Dante Rossetti hired men to open his wifeâ€™s grave after six years and retrieve his collection of unpublished poems. On his seventieth birthday, John Greenleaf Whittier had a few of his friends over for dinner: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mark Twain. Many of the great poets died poor, eight committed suicide, Tichborne was drawn and quartered at eighteen, Marlowe died in a barroom brawl, and Raleigh was beheaded. But many others lived long and colorful lives: three won the Nobel Prize for Literature; Robert Service, who wrote â€œThe Cremation of Sam Mageeâ€, made a million dollars from his poetry and died on the French Riviera at eighty-four.

Available only as an ebook, the anthology is deeply indexed by author, title and period, with a navigation bar at the top of every page. Short illustrated biographies are included for each poet, as well as descriptions of each group, from the Elizabethans to the Moderninsts.

Poets represented by four poems or more include: William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Butler Yeats, Robert Browning, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Robert Burns, Alfred Tennyson, A. E. Housman, William Carlos Williams, Percy Bysshe Shelly, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Laurence Hope, Charlotte Mew, Thomas Campion, D. H. Lawrence, Wilfred Owen, Langston Hughes, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Herrick, John Keats, Matthew Arnold, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allen Poe, Ernest Dowson, Walter de la Mare, John Masefield, Anna Wickham, Sara Teasdale, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, e. e. cummings, George Herbert, Ben Jonson, John Wilmot, Alexander Pope, William Cowper, Lord Byron, Christina Rossetti, Arthur Symons, Claude McKay, Helene Johnson, Amy Lowell, Elinor Wylie, Wallace Stevens, and Archibald MacLeish. (rel 1.09)

Christopher Burns is a long-time media executive and editor of The Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry, the best-selling poetry book on Kindle.
Country USA
Manufacturer The Seashell Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2011-02-12
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	The Seashell Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2011-02-12
Format	Kindle eBook

Immortal Poets: Their Lives and Verse

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