Red cloth HB with no Dj,corners and spine ends slightly bumped,cover faded and slightly marked but good,gold gilt lettering on spine, inscription on front frep,bind and book good,one page has a few tiny marks,no stamps or rips to slightly browned pages,English and American poetry from the thirteenth century to the present day,book includes early ballads of unknown date and authorship,early songs of unknown date and authorship,from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries,Chaucer to the Elizabethans,the sixteenth century second half,Shakespeare and the Renaissance,the seventeenth century Cavaliers,Puritans,Metaphysicians,the eighteenth century the restoration and revival of classicism,the nineteenth century first half,Romance and prophecy,the nineteenth century second half, Victorians and Americans,begining of the twentieth century,Romantic realism