English Poetry: A Poetic Record from Chaucer to Yeats
- Author / Editor
- Hopkins, David, ed.
English Poetry: A Poetic Record from Chaucer to Yeats
- Published
- New York: Routledge, 1990.
- Physical Description
- xii, 269 pp.
- Description
- An anthology in two parts: 1) seventy-six examples of English verse "reflections" on the nature and features of poetry; 2) 318 examples of "English poets' responses" to other English poets. Includes notes and indexes. The Chaucer section of part 2 (pp. 72-83) includes two samples of Chaucer's commentary on his own verse, followed by commemorations of Chaucer by Hoccleve, Lydgate, Skelton, Spenser Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Dryden, Mark Akenside, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Hartley Coleridge, with additional allusions by Surrey, Ben Jonson, Milton, James Thomson, and Walter Savage Landor.
- Reprinted in 1994 as The Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets: Poetic Responses to English Poetry from Chaucer to Yeats.
- Alternative Title
- The Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets: Poetic Responses to English Poetry from Chaucer to Yeats.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion