The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse (Oxford Books of Verse) - Softcover

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9780192822437: The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)

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ISBN 10: 0192822438 ISBN 13: 9780192822437

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1989

Succinctly called "a book of tales of various kinds, romantic, humorous, ghostly, and gory, written at any time over the past six hundred years" by the compilers, Iona Opie and the late Peter Opie, this universally-appealing collection of 59 poems illuminates the literary tradition of narrative verse from Chaucer to Auden.
The anthology includes Pope's "The Rape of the Lock," Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott," Poe's "The Raven," and Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark," along with such twentieth-century narrative classics as G.K. Chesterton's "Lepanto," Robert Frost's "The Code," Marriott Edgar's "The Lion and Albert," and W.H. Auden's "The Ballad of Barnaby." Abridgements and extracts from book-length narratives such as Spenser's The Faerie Queen and Milton's Paradise Lost add to the richness and variety of the collection. The Opies also provide extensive notes which trace the source of the poet's inspiration, whether fact or fiction, and demonstrate how the creative process has transformed that source into a work of art.

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About the Editors:
Iona Opie and the late Peter Opie have written numerous other books, including Children's Games in Street and Playground, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, and The Oxford Book of Children's Verse.

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The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold
Sohrab And Rustum by Matthew Arnold
The Ballad Of Barnaby by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Jackdaw Of Rheims by Richard Harris Barham
Cymon And Iphigenia by Giovanni Boccaccio
'childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came' by Robert Browning
The Italian In England by Robert Browning
The Pied Piper Of Hamelin by Robert Browning
Tam O' Shanter by Robert Burns
Beppo: A Venetian Story by George Gordon Byron
The Song Of Samuel Sweet by Charles Causley
The Cock And The Fox [or, The Cock And The Hen] by Geoffrey Chaucer
Death And The Three Revellers by Geoffrey Chaucer
Lepanto by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Diverting History Of John Gilpin by William Cowper
The Borough: Letter 22. Poor Of The Borough. Peter Grimes by George Crabbe
The Nabara by Cecil Day Lewis
The Hunting Of The Snark: Fit 1. The Landing by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The Hunting Of The Snark: Fit 2. The Bellman's Speech by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The Hunting Of The Snark: Fit 3. The Baker's Tale by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The Hunting Of The Snark: Fit 4. The Hunting by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The Hunting Of The Snark: Fit 5. The Beaver's Lesson by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The Hunting Of The Snark: Fit 6. The Barrister's Dream by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The Hunting Of The Snark: Fit 7. The Banker's Fate by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The Hunting Of The Snark: Fit 8. The Vanishing by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The Ballad Of Agincourt by Michael Drayton
The Lion And Albert by Marriott Edgar
The Code - Heroics by Robert Frost
The Double Transformation by Oliver Goldsmith
Elegy On The Death Of A Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith
A Trampwoman's Tragedy by Thomas Hardy
The Tale Of A Pony by Francis Bret Harte
Aesop by Robert Henryson
Faithless Sally Brown; An Old Ballad by Thomas Hood
The Eve Of St. Agnes by John Keats
The Ballad Of East And West by Rudyard Kipling
Tales Of A Wayside Inn: 1. Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Wreck Of The Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Horatius [at The Bridge], Fr. Lays Of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay
Reynard The Fox: Hunted by John Masefield
Sin And Death [or, The Flight Of Satan] by John Milton
The Haystack In The Floods by William (1834-1896) Morris
The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
Atheling Grange: Or, The Apotheosis Of Lotte Nussbaum by William Plomer
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
The Rape Of The Lock by Alexander Pope
Goblin Market by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The White Ship by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Lochinvar; Lady Heron's Song [or, Young Lochinvar] by Walter Scott
The Cremation Of Sam Mcgee by Robert William Service
Bishop Hatto [and The Rats] by Robert Southey
The Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey
Beth Gelert; Or, The Grave Of The Greyhound by William Robert Spencer
The Cave Of Despair (1) by Edmund Spenser
Ticonderoga; A Legend Of The West Highlands by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Lady Of Shalott by Alfred Tennyson
Morte D'arthur by Alfred Tennyson
The King Of Brentford's Testament by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Babes In The Wood (1) by Anonymous
King Estmere by Anonymous
Tam Lin by Anonymous
The Ballad Of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
Alice Fell; Or, Poverty by William Wordsworth
The Idiot Boy by William Wordsworth
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

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