Seven centuries of poetry: An anthology of verse in English 1240 – 1922 (2nd edition), edited by Jon Corelis,

This web site is a companion to the book Seven centuries of poetry: An anthology of verse in English 1240 – 1922 (2nd edition), edited by Jon Corelis, available as a pdf file on this web site which may be accessed here. The file is also downloadable and printable, but please read the conditions for reproduction below and on the copyright page. For any questions, please see the contact link below.

Please note that while this anthology is composed of texts which are (to the best of my knowledge and belief) in the public domain in the United States, the collection as a whole is under copyright. Permission is hereby given for print or electronic reproduction for personal, noncommercial purposes provided the work is unaltered and Jon Corelis is attributed as editor and selector. Reproduction for sale or other commercial use without permission is prohibited.

Please also note that while I believe all materials in the anthology and on this web site are in the public domain in the United States, I have no information about their status under the copyright regulations of other countries.

Included on this site are a gallery of images of most of the poets in the anthology, links to some recordings of the poets reading selections in the anthology, and some reviews and essays on poetry by Jon Corelis.

Images of poets:

For the image gallery, please click here.

Sound files:

Beginning as early as the 1880s, prominent poets began to make sound recordings of at least excerpts from their works. I've decided not to try to include here a complete list of recordings of poets in this anthology reading their works which are available on the internet, since such a list would be hard to keep up to date. But here are links to a few sound recordings which are likely to stay stable:

  • This collection on the Poetryarchive.org site includes Tennyson reading The Charge of the Light Brigade, Yeats reading The Song of Wandering Aengus and The Lake Isle of Innisfree, W. C. Williams reading Queen Anne's Lace and The Widow's Lament in Springtime, and T. S. Eliot reading The Waste Land.
  • The University of Pennsylvania Pennsound Archive has an Ezra Pound page which includes the poet reading Sestina: Altaforte and Homage to Sextus Propertius section VI.
  • Youtube.com has many audio/visual files of poetry readings, but it's difficult to narrow down a search to poems read by their authors, files tend to come and go, and some of them have distracting sound tracks or irritating advertisements added. However, here are some Youtube files of poems in this anthology being read by their authors, which are of good quality and seem likely to stay posted:
  • Although there seems to be no recording of Ernest Lawrence Thayer reading his Casey at the Bat, the poem was made famous in the late 19th century in stage recitations by the musical actor DeWolf Hopper, and a 1906 recording of his recitation is available on Wikimedia.
  • A recording of James Whitcomb Riley reading When the Frost is on the Punkin is included in the Indianapolis Public Library's digital collection here.

Other Links:

Links to some other sites by Jon Corelis readers of the anthology may find interesting:

Image: La Belle Dame Sans Merci by W. J. Neatby Image information: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:W._J._Neatby_-_Keats_-_La_Belle_Dame_Sans_Merci.jpg

This site last revised 17 July 2017