Subscriber: VIVAAdding a further 20,000 poems to the original collection, English Poetry, Second Edition contains over 183,000 poems. Essentially comprising the complete canon of English poetry of the British Isles and the British Empire from the 8th century to the early 20th, its works are drawn from nearly 4,900 printed sources and represent more than 2,700 poets. The newly-added works represent both the literary heritages of Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries and the poetic legacies of English writers only recently brought back to scholarly attention.
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Library owns:
v.1. English poems, Life of Pico, The last things
v. 2 The history of King Richard III
v. 6 (parts 1&2) A dialogue concerning hersies [sic]
v. 7 Letter to Bugenhagen, Supplication of souls, Letter against frith
v. 10 The debellation of Salem and Bizance
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