Description
The Scenes from Shakespeare have been included specially to suit the requirements of Universities which do not prescribe any play of Shakespeare for study. Drinkwater’s Carver in Stone, a rather difficult poem for the average student, has been given a place partly because it is difficult, but mainly because of the universality and depth of its appeal and the profound nature of the theme. Very often, most of the English poetry that an average student comes across in the course of his study is poetry with an English background and based on typically English themes. The editors have also included in this anthology good poetry of poets other than English with a characteristic non-English atmosphere, and they believe that these selections constitute a challenge to those who maintain that good English poetry ought to be thoroughly English in tone and sentiment.
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