Hardback. 225pp. Covers the musicality of poetry preceding the Victorians from Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse onwards before considering the work of Robert Southey, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Walt Whitman, Alice Meynell, Coventry Patmore and Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Morris, Matthew Arnold, etc. and moving onto pre-modernist poetry beginning to change into free verse. Colour illustrated boards. Slightly softened to spine ends else very clean, bright and neat.