Edited by the late Alan Bold, a convivial Scots poet of impressive avoirdupois who ran for the Oxford Professorship of Poetry and garnered nul point. Not much of a book, alas.
I would like to suggest 'The Penguin Book of Reactionary Verse', which would include 'Beowulf', Ulysses' Speech in Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus' Curse of the Roman People, Prospero's speech against Caliban, Pope's 'Essay on Man', a bunch of later Wordsworth Sonnets, The Satirical Songs of Canning and Frere, Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King', W.S. Gilbert's 'The Gondoliers', large and noisome chunks of Pound's Cantos, particularly the stuff on Usury, Vachel Lindsay's 'Congo', 'Sweeney Agonistes' ... Any takers?
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