English Poetry, Volume II, From Collins to Fitzgerald

by Charles William Eliot (Editor)

1910. Sample Contents: William Collins; George Sewell; Alison Cockburn; Jane Elliot; John Logan; Samuel Johnson; Oliver Goldsmith; William Cowper; Anna Babbauld; Carolina Oliphant; Anne Hunter; William Blake; Robert Tannanill; William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Sir Walter Scott; Thomas Campbell; George Gordon, Lord Byron; Thomas Moore; Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Keats; Walter Savage Landor; Thomas Hood; Hartley Coleridge; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Edward Fitzgerald.

Genres: Poetry, Classics, Poetry Plays

958 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1909

About the author

Charles William Eliot was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university. Eliot served the longest term as president in the university's history.

Reviews

[Merc · Rating 3 out of 5]

If I were going to submerge myself in poetry, I wouldn't dive deep into this book. A couple things caught my attention but many were misses for me. I will say that the first one I read was my favorite of. How'd I bump into gold within this mine? Just picked out the title I liked the most.

[Bumbles · Rating 4 out of 5]

Note: This book is not nearly 1000 pages. For some reason, the Harvard classics poetry collection continues the page count from the preceding volume. Each volume is roughly 400 or so pages.
Favorites:
1. The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk - William Cowper
2. The Castaway - William Cowper
3. Tomorrow - John Collins
4. The Scholar - Robert Southey
5. The River of Life - Thomas Campbell
6. Elegy - Lord Byron
7. Ode to a Nightingale - John Keats
8. The Terror of Death - John Keats
9. Ode to Autumn - John Keats
10. La Belle Damn Sans Merci - John Keats
11. Bright Star - John Keats
12. The Past and the Present - Thomas Hood
13. When Lovely Women Stoops - Oliver Goldsmith

[Ixby Wuff · Rating 4 out of 5]

Compiled and Edited by Charles W. Eliot LL D in 1909, the Harvard Classics is a 51-volume Anthology of classic literature from throughout the history of western civilization. The set is sometimes called "Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf."

Volume 41 is the second of three dedicated to English poets and they are presented chronologically. This volume starts with William Collins (1721 - 1759) and ends with Edward FitzGerald (1809 - 1883).

[Kristian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Slowly making my way through this book.