Includes bibliographical references (page 293) and index.
Preliminaries; Contents; Introduction; Active and Contemplative Lives; Art Imagination and Inspiration; Beauty; Carpe Diem; Christmas Poems; Death; Death of the Young; Duty; Fame and Ambition; Family Relations; Freedom and Captivity; The Golden Mean; Immortality; Industrialism and the City; Innocence and Experience; Love; Marriage; Music; Nature and Country Life; Old Age; Patriotism; Politics and Human Rights; Pride and Vanity; Rebellion and Conformity; Regret Consolation and Melancholy; Religion; Sleep; Time and Change; War; Biographical Sketches; Further Reading; Index.
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This thematic guide offers interpretations of 415 poems, representing the work of more than 110 poets spanning seven centuries of British poetry. It should be useful to librarians and teachers who need to identify and locate poems on a given theme, and to students and poetry fans.
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