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London : A History in Verse by Mark Ford is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is London : A History in Verse about?
Called “the flour of Cities all,” London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Now poet Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems about London to date, from Chaucer to Wordsworth to the present day, providing a chronological tour of urban life and of English literature.Nearly all of the major poets of British literature have left some poetic record of London: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, and T. S. Eliot. Ford goes well beyond these figures, however, to gather significant verse of all kinds, from Jacobean city comedies to nursery rhymes, from topical satire to anonymous ballads. The result is a cultural history of the city in verse, one that represents all classes of London's population over some seven centuries, mingling the high and low, the elegant and the salacious, the courtly and the street smart. Many of the poems respond to large events in the city's history—the beheading of Charles I, the Great Fire, the Blitz—but the majority reflect the quieter routines and anxieties of everyday life through the centuries.Ford's selections are arranged chronologica
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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Mark Ford
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674088047
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Poetry, History, Short Stories
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5 (15 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14