- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber (24 Jan 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571196179
- ISBN-13: 978-0571196173
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,164,668 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This widely researched anthology traces the history of England from Boadicea to the present day through verse. It includes work by our greatest poets from Milton, Swift, Shakespeare and Keats to Hughes, Motion and Larkin and is divided chronologically into keyhistorical periods. Each section includes a timeline, an introduction detailing the social, political and economic circumstances of the period, and a running narrative to set the poetry in context.
About the Author
Kenneth Baker was born in 1934 and educated at St Paul's and Magdalen College, Oxford. He entered parliament as Conservative MP for Acton in 1968, beginning a long parliamentary career that included serving as Environment Secretary and Home Secretary. He retired from the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election and now sits in the House of Lords.$$$His publications include five anthologies of poetry, a volume of memoirs, The Turbulent Years, and two cartoon histories, The Prime Ministers and The Kings and Queens.
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