This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Amongst the poets whose work is included are Blake, Shakespeare and Wordsworth; Tennyson, Keats and Shelley; twentieth-century writers, amongst them Yeats, Laurie Lee and Ted Hughes; and such American poets as Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, ...

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.