The Oxford Treasury of Time Poems - Softcover

9780192762368: The Oxford Treasury of Time Poems

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192762362 ISBN 13: 9780192762368

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2000

A collection of more than one hundred poems about the many aspects of time includes works by Emily Dickinson, David McCord, D. H. Lawrence, and others on themes such as the beginning of the world, growing old, and the future. Reprint.

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About the Author:

Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark have edited a large number of classic poetry anthologies for OUP, including the best-selling One Hundred Years of Poetry for children. Michael Harrison lives in Oxford, and Christopher Stuart-Clark lives in Windsor.

From Booklist:

Time is a theme that covers just about everything, and in this large, illustrated anthology of "poems for the millennium," the subjects range from clocks and birthdays to memories, partings, and the sweep of history. Most contributions are British--this collection doesn't have the global range of Ruth Gordon's Time Is the Longest Distance (1991)--but there are lots of the classics (from the Bible to Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Auden, and Langston Hughes) as well as a few contemporary pieces. The illustrations by several artists vary from surrealistic detail to the wash of the eternal sea, but some pictures get in the way of the words. In fact, the sophistication of the poetry doesn't fit with the picture-book format. Those ready for Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" don't need the pretty pictures. It's the great poetry that kids and teachers will want to read aloud: Dylan Thomas' "Fern Hill," Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach," Christina Rossetti's "When I Am Dead, My Dearest," and nearly a hundred more. Hazel Rochman

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