An Introduction to Poetry

Author / Editor
Simpson, Louis, ed.

Title
An Introduction to Poetry

Published
London: Macmillan, 1968.

Physical Description
418 pp.

Description
Textbook introduction to appreciating and analyzing poetry, with a chronological anthology of English and American verse which includes excerpts from GP: 1.1-34 (opening), 79-100 (Squire), 165-207 (Monk), and 445-76, (Wife of Bath). Expanded versions published in 1972 and 1986.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Squire and His Tale
Monk and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale