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Nineteenth-Century Minor Poets (Paperback, Main)
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Nineteenth-Century Minor Poets (Paperback, Main)
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Who is a major, who is a minor poet? Inevitably, in his
introduction, W. H. Auden offers a stimulating rationale for
distinguishing between the two. To paraphrase him, one cannot say
that a major poet always writes better poems than a minor poet. Nor
is it a matter of pleasure the poet gives an individual reader -
Auden himself confesses to not liking Shelley but being 'delighted
by every line of William Barnes', but not doubting for a moment the
former is a major poet and the latter a minor one. One does not
always enjoy what one most admires. Yet everyone is to some extent
familiar with the work of the major nineteenth century poets and
few have had the chance to read the patriotic poems of Thomas
Campbell, several of which rank among the finest such poems in
English literature, the songs of Tom Moore or his political and
social satires, the humorous verse of Thomas Hood, the superb
lyrics of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, the odes of Coventry Patmore, the
satirical poems of Samuel Butler. These poets and many more are
discerningly represented in this anthology which puts into the
limelight every genuine minor poet (they must have written at least
one good poem) born between 1770 and 1870.
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