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each portion providing an adult's daily intake of literary nourishment

A subplot follows the ill-starred affair between Stalin's daughter and a Jewish writer

said Oliver Moody in The Times

Only a writer for his last twelve years

That's a cruel thing to think

100 Poets : A Little Anthology by John Carey howard each portion providing an adult'sCelebrated author John Carey here presents a uniquely valuable anthology of verse based on a simple principle: select the one hundred greatest poets from across the centuries, and then choose their finest poems. Ranging from Homer and Sappho to Donne and Milton, Plath and Angelou, this is a delightful and accessible introduction to the very best that poetry can offer. Familiar favorites are nestled alongside marvelous new discoveriesall woven together