Author : Iona Opie
Release : 2002
Genre : Poetry
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The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse write by Iona Opie. This book was released on 2002. The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a story-book, universal in its appeal and representative of a literary tradition from Chaucer to Auden. Its tales are of various kinds - romantic, humorous, ghostly, and gory, written over the past six hundred years.Here will be found Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' and Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner'; the tale of John Gilpin and of the Idiot Boy; 'The Lady of Shalott', 'The Pied Piper', and Lewis Carroll's 'The Hunting of the Snark'. In the twentieth century the narrative tradition is exemplified by Chesterton andMasefield, Charles Causley and C. Day-Lewis, amongst others.Most of the fifty-nine poems in this collection are given in their entirety, but abridgements and extracts from book-length narratives such as 'The Faerie Queene' and 'Paradise Lost' add to the richness and variety.