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,
“... Since 1962, the Norton Anthology of English Literature, edited by M.H. Abrams and others, had held that ‘the medieval period in English literature extends for more than 800 years’ and included Old English as well as Middle English poetry. By the late 1990s, the Norton Anthology had seen off the rival Oxford Anthology, produced by heavyweight academics ... ”