Le Gallienne provides a comprehensive survey of English poetry from Chaucer to the modern era. With insightful commentary and extensive selections from the canon of English verse, this book is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand the richness and complexity of this literary tradition. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Hafiz of Shiraz was one of the very greatest Persian poets. The poetry of Hafiz is erotic yet spiritual, both sensual and symbolic, full of images of wine and the tavern, of the Beloved, of nightingales and roses. Bardic Press is proud to announce a new edition of Richard Le Gallienne's moving and poetic translations of Hafiz.

Excerpt from The Le Gallienne Book of English Verse: Edited With an Introduction The Editor and the Publisher wish to acknowledge the kind ness of the following Publishers who have permitted the use of many selections from their lists in this Anthology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900 is an anthology of English poetry, edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, that had a very substantial influence on popular taste and perception of poetry and remained the leading general anthology of English verse throughout the 20th century. Poets included in the collections are: Geoffrey Chaucer Alexander Pope Christopher Marlowe Edmund Spenser Elizabeth Barrett Browning Emily Brontë Robert Browning Robert Burns Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Milton John Ruskin John Keats William Butler Yeats William Makepeace Thackeray William Wordsworth Sir Thomas Wyatt Thomas Love Peacock George Meredith Lord Tennyson John Bunyan John Dryden Sir Walter Scott Robert Louis Stevenson Rudyard Kipling George MacDonald William Blake James Joyce Emily Dickinson Walt Whitman And many more.