Outbreaks of Poets
Robert Crawford, 15 June 2023
The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture
by Clare Bucknell.
Head of Zeus, 344 pp., £27.99, February,978 1 80024 144 2 Show More
by Clare Bucknell.
Head of Zeus, 344 pp., £27.99, February,
“... seem in some ways more Anglocentric than he was. The Golden Treasury includes as many poems by Scott as by Keats, and more than 10 per cent of the poets it includes are Scottish. Though it contains few Victorian writers, the anthology certainly indicates aspects of Victorian taste: oodles of Robert Herrick, but only one poem attributed to John Donne; seven ... ”