Immortal Poems of the English Language Mass market paperbound - 1983

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<B>Oscar Williams</B> (1900-1964), editor of this book, was himself a distinguished poet. The author of five books of poetry, including <I>That's All That Matters</I> and <I>Selected Poems,</I> he has been called "clever, disconcerting, rash" (Lionel Abel) and "a very real and important poet...(whose) powerful imagery and unique personal idiom will add a permanent page to American poetry" (Dylan Thomas).<P>Mr. Williams achieved literary distinction not only as a highly original and vigorous American poet, but also as one of the great poetry anthologists of his time. His most outstanding anthologies are "The Little Treasury Series," <I>The War Poets, Immortal Poems of the English Language, The Pocket Book of Modern Verse</I> and <I>The New Pocket Anthology of American Verse,</I> the latter three published by Pocket Books. These are accepted as present-day classics in their fields and are in wide use in colleges and universities. Other anthologies include a revised edition of Palgrave's <I>The Golden Treasury, The Major British Poets, The Major American Poets,</I> and <I>The Silver Treasury of Light Verse.</I><P>Mr. Williams' last and most ambitious anthology was <I>Master Poems of the English Language,</I> now also published by Pocket Books. A huge work of over 1100 pages, illustrated with portraits of the poets and combining a comprehensive anthology with a broad sampling of critical writing, it is a superb contribution by the man Robert Lowell called "probably the best anthologist in America."

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