World poetry : an anthology of verse from antiquity to our time / Katharine Washburn and John S. Major, editors ; Clifton Fadiman, general editor.
This long-awaited, indispensable volume contains more than 1600 poems drawn from dozens of languages and cultures, and spans a period of more than 4000 years from ancient Sumer and Egypt to the late twentieth century. World Poetry encompasses the many realms of poetry -- poetry of all styles, of all...
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Quality Paperback Book Club,
℗♭1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Poets of the Bronze and Iron Ages (2200-250 B.C.)
- Classical empires, East and West (750 B.C.-A.D. 500)
- the postclassical world (A.D. 250-1200)
- The rise of the vernacular (950-1450)
- The Renaissance in Europe; late traditional verse from the Americas, South Asia, and East Asia (1350-1625)
- The seventeenth century (1600-1700)
- The eighteenth century into the early twentieth century (1700-1915)
- The twentieth century (1915- )