100 Poets: A Little Anthology ed. By John Carey Ly Seppel disturbing and shape-shifting

disturbing and shape-shifting

Goss navigates the real and the imagined with equal flair

Intensely characterized

Published Feb 2018

In Discipline

100 Poets: A Little Anthology ed. By John Carey Ly Seppel disturbing and shape-shiftingA wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of PoetryA poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the devastation of conquests. Celebrated author John Carey here presents a uniquely valuable anthology of verse based on a simple principle: select the one hundred greatest poets from across the centuries, and then choose their finest poems.