The title collects 41 English popular Poetry and Popular Verse written by William Shakespeare, John Donne, Thomas Gray, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Ben Johnson, Thomas Hood, Laurence Binyon, William Wordsworth, etc. These popular poetry and verse include "Shall I compare thee to a summe's day, "Death be not proud, "An Elegy written in a country churchyard, "Song to Celia", "the Lady of Shalott, "Soldier", "She walks in beauty, "Nightingale". "Down by the Salley Gardens". It is fair to say that this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind available, it covers a remarkable range, from striking visions of Blake and Shelly and the insights of Keats to lighter but equally memorable verse by Tennyson, Kipling, Chesterton and Edward Lear.
