Enormously popular, this volume was revised once, in 1939, by the editor. He chose poems from the period 1250–1900. The first edition appeared in 1900 and was edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, a poet himself and sometime King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge. What’s more, that dialogue’s articulation in works of literature, literary criticism, and lexicography, as well as in works of philosophy, theology, and Biblical scholarship, has often retained a ghostly but genuine stamp of orthodoxy.Įspecially is this true of Oxford University and its press, and even more so of that press’s Oxford Book of English Verse,now available in a new, third edition. Despite Newman’s withdrawal from Oxford in 1845 and the subsequent gradual secularization of much of the life of the two universities, the Christian dialogue between faith and reason has continued to thrive there. That the Christian religion was never disestablished in England-or in the ancient English universities of Oxford and Cambridge-is a fact of momentous cultural importance, not only for England but for the English-speaking peoples generally. The Oxford Book of English Verse edited by Christopher Ricks.
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