This anthology contains a wide variety of short stories from across the English-speaking world.

Songs of Ourselves is an accessible one-volume introduction to the astonishing range of forms, styles and content of verse written in the English language over more than four centuries, containing work by more than 100 poets from all parts of the English-speaking world.

Introduction

PART 1: Poems from the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

PART 2: Poems from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

PART 3: Poems from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (I)

PART 4: Poems from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (II)

PART 5: Poems from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (III)

Index of First Lines.