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Treasuries

Clare Bucknell
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The Mersey Sound
The Oxford Book of English Verse
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  • ISBN 9781800241459
  • Weight: 261g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Feb 2024
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Description

The fascinating history of poetry anthologies and their influence on British society and culture over the last four centuries.

For centuries, poetry anthologies shaped the way that generations of British readers encountered literature. Eighteenth-century young women were introduced to the permissible bits of Shakespeare and Swift in censored collections. Working-class Victorians enrolled to be taught from The Golden Treasury at adult learning colleges. Pop-loving teenagers in the 1960s got their first taste of the counterculture from the bestselling The Mersey Sound.

InThe Treasuries, Clare Bucknell reveals anthologies to be a unique window into social history. This is the story of some of the most widely read books ever published, and the cultural conversations – around politics, gender, class and nationhood – they sparked.
About Clare Bucknell
Clare Bucknell is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She is an expert on the history of poetry and has written on literature and visual culture for the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, Harper's and Apollo. She lives in London.

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