Touched with Fire: An Anthology of Poems - Cambridge School Anthologies

Touched with Fire: An Anthology of Poems

Author/s: Jack Hydes

Touched with Fire introduces middle secondary students to a wide range of poetry.

The selection of poems, ranging from the 16th century to the present day, reflects the great variety in poetry - light-hearted, passionate, serious, lyrical - and includes the work of writers in English from all around the world.

The book is divided into six compact collections, each containing 22 poems.

Following each collection is a section to help students write about poetry.

Clear guidance is given on what might be expected in an essay for a poetry examination or for course work.

Features: 

• The work of 73 poets including: Achebe, Arnold, Auden, Betjeman, Blake, Browning, Coleridge, Dipoko, Eliot, Frost, Guerney, Heaney, Hughes, Jonson, Keats, Lewis, Marvell, Milton, Nicol, Okara, Owen, Plath, Porter, Rossetti, Shelley, Soyinka, Tomas, Wordsworth and Yeats.