Image and Rhythm

This anthology is intended for educational and learning purposes. The compilation of one hundred selection of verses is designed to serve as the text book for Three Year Degree Course students under Semester System across the Country. The selection is made as per the CBCS syllabus in English and Skill Enhancement Compulsory Course for Arts, Science and Commerce Streams. The poems are arranged in chronological order in three sections, British Poets starting from Sixteenth Century to the present day, a few representative American Poets of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century and Indian Poets writing since fifties. An intensive introduction to individual poets and explanatory notes on poems are the distinguishing features of this anthology, which shall be useful and helpful aids to the students not only in helping them to understand difficult poetic lines and allusions but also to the teachers in making them better comprehension and for references.