Brush Up Your Poetry!: A Many-Splendoured Tour of the World's Best-Loved Verse

As with the five previous books in the successful, "wonderfully informative" (San Francisco Chronicle) Brush Up series, Brush Up Your Poetry! is both a lively primer and a fascinating look at how our language has evolved. A rich sampling of some of the English language's best-loved poems is accompanied by lively and revealing details on the major works and the poets behind them.