I knew who Blake was; I even had an early poem of his by heart ("How Sweet I Roam'd from Field to Field"); I must have come across "The Tyger" in some school anthology.
After A-levels, he headed south to Selwyn College, Cambridge, studied for an MA in poetry at Birmingham University, then returned home to begin a PhD on the poet Peter Porter, whose work had fascinated him since a chance encounter with his best-known poem, "Your Attention Please", in a school anthology.
Matthew Dennison in the Daily Express gave the book five out of five: "This is beautifully written and elegant and places in context that handful of hauntingly sad and stomach-wrenchingly painful poems which feature in every school anthology alongside an overview of less familiar work".
In place of the clipped moustache that Wilfred Owen modelled in countless tattered school anthologies, PJ Harvey wears a headdress of black plumes.
During the day, poets who have not yet achieved Donald Hall status hold forth inside tents with names like "Smartweeds" and "Mud Lake," and some of them don't much sound like the poets in your junior high school anthologies.
For four months the six actors in the group each played 10 parts, touring schools with a dramatised anthology about prisons and prisoners in various countries and at various times in history.
(I also bring the blush of shame to the spousal cheek by revisiting the anthology of school poetry in which one of his youthful efforts is forever immortalised, and declaiming it, in stirring tones and with elevated eyebrow).
In fact, Radice's translations of Tagore's poems have been used as school and university anthologies across India.
courses at many schools and there are several anthologies of sci.
Had it not been for one of the latter, who in high school nudged me toward an anthology of Beat literature, I would not have discovered "Howl" until college.
