London in Poetry and ProseAnna AdamsLabel: Enitharmon PressDescription: This anthology is a celebration of the city of London: 'Noisy stimulating deadening filthy mysterious tolerant racist crime-ridden saint-haunted ancient up-to-the-minute oppressive liberating crowded lonely addictive and green-and-gardened London is a microcosm of the World.' These words from Anna Adams' Foreword give a taste of the breadth of subject-matter and tone to be enjoyed in this magnificent illustrated anthology. Writing from the Middle Ages to the present is divided into themes including 'The Weather in the Streets' 'The Poor and the Rich' 'The Countryman in Town' 'The Recent Wars' and - unavoidably - 'London Transport'.Writers include: Anna Adams Fleur Adcock W.H.Auden James Berry William Blake James Boswell Robert Bridges Alan Brownjohn Lord Byron Geoffrey Chaucer Amy Clampitt John Clare Arthur Hugh Clough David Constantine John Davidson Charles Dickens T.S.Eliot D.J.Enright U.A.Fanthorpe John Greening Thomas Hardy James Harpur John Heath-Stubbs Stuart Henson Frances Horovitz Ted Hughes Samuel Johnson John Keats Rudyard Kipling Charles Lamb Louis MacNeice Glyn Maxwell Felix Mendelsohn Grace Nichols William Oxley Peter Phillips Ruth Pitter Thomas de Quincey Kathleen Raine Carole Satyamurti Percy B.Shelley Jon Silkin Stevie Smith Stephen Spender Anne Stevenson Jonathan Swift Vernon Watkins Virginia Woolf William Wordsworth Kit Wright and Benjamin Zephaniah.
