This two volume anthology celebrates four centuries of English poetry, from the Elizabethan era to the present day. Volume I covers Spenser, Sydney, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Dryden, Swift, Pope and many others, together with a generous selection from less well-known writers. Volume II includes Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Betjeman, Auden, Larkin, Hughes and Heaney.