Elegant Extracts, or Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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This book features over 500 poems, collected by the author, from the canon of English literature. The careful selection presents the works of legendary poets from Chaucer and Milton, to Wordsworth and Shelley. The book is a collection of enduring works that have significantly shaped the development of English language, culture, and thoughtful expression. By combining beautiful language with profound insights, the poems collected here articulate our shared human experiences of love, loss, nature, and mortality, and continue to inspire, provoke and enthrall readers to this day.

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