The Penguin Book of English Song : Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden by Richard Stokes

The Penguin Book of English Song : Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden by Richard StokesPoetry and music have been associated with each other from the very beginning. The Penguin Book of English Song draws together a great variety of English poetry (including Irish, Scots and Welsh writers) that has reached a wider audience through the magic of music. Richard Stokes's rich anthology of verse stretches from the fourteenth century to the twentieth, collecting poems that have inspired musical settings by one hundred English poets, along

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