Great Short Poems from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century

Description

Covering world poetry, ancient and medieval times, the 19th and 20th century, and both serious and humorous works, this volume contains more than 400 short poems. It features verses of 12 lines of less by Boethius, Su T'ung-Po, Plato, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Heine, Tennyson, Whitman, Yeats, Cummings, and scores of others.

Classical scholar Dorothy Belle Pollack is Professor Emeritus at Hunter College. She also taught history at Farleigh Dickinson and the City College of New York. Robert Blaisdell is an English professor at the City University of New York's Kingsborough Community College and the editor of 22 Dover literature and poetry collections.