Publisher Description
In reference to the beginning of the seventeenth century, Samuel Johnson wrote that there “appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets.” Widely regarded in the years since as a distinct poetical movement, it is interesting to note that the Metaphysical poets did not, in the main, read or know one another.
Samuel Johnson was not an admirer of the group as he decried their distinct lack of the decorum of the day, but the poems featured in this collection are wonderful, inspiring, and thought-provoking from our modern perspective.
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About various authors
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) was born in Odense, Denmark, the son of a poor shoemaker and a washerwoman. As a young teenager, he became quite well known in Odense as a reciter of drama and as a singer. When he was fourteen, he set off for the capital, Copenhagen, determined to become a national success on the stage. He failed miserably, but made some influential friends in the capital who got him into school to remedy his lack of proper education. In 1829 his first book was published. After that, books came out at regular intervals. His stories began to be translated into English as early as 1846. Since then, numerous editions, and more recently Hollywood songs and Disney cartoons, have helped to ensure the continuing popularity of the stories in the English-speaking world.
About Richard Mitchley
Ghizela Rowe has worked in broadcast
television for thirty years on a broad range of programming. Her specialization
is in music. She helps run the Copyright Group, an extensive collection of
master recording rights, and has lent her voice to many audiobooks, including The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Short Stories, and The Romantics: An Introduction.