Michael Schmidt - literary critic, anthologist, poet, translator, novelist, publisher

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Michael Schmidt - literary critic, anthologist, poet, translator, novelist, publisher

The Great Modern Poets
Edited by Michael Schmidt

Quercus, 2010, 2014, 2024

The Quercus edition is a beau­ti­fully illus­trated book con­taining over 150 twentieth-century poems, including work by Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, poets of the First World War, e.e. cum­mings, W.H. Auden, Langston Hughes, Dylan Thomas, Ezra Pound and Sylvia Plath. Each chapter com­prises intro­ductory quo­ta­tions, an illus­tra­tion, a bio­graphy of the poet, and a selec­tion of their key poems.

The hard­cover edition is accom­panied by an audio CD with 17 of the 50 poets reading their own work – a perfect intro­duc­tion to twen­tieth century poetry.