Dame Helen Gardner was Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, a distinguished scholar and author of books including The Metaphysical Poets, In Defence of the Imagination, and The Art of T. S. Eliot.

`If one had to say where can you find in fewer than 1,000 pages the best of English poetry, here it is. Daily Telegraph

Dame Helen Gardner was Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, a distinguished scholar and author of books including The Metaphysical Poets, In Defence of the Imagination, and The Art of T. S. Eliot.

`If one had to say where can you find in fewer than 1,000 pages the best of English poetry, here it is. Daily Telegraph

Dame Helen Gardner was Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, a distinguished scholar and author of books including The Metaphysical Poets, In Defence of the Imagination, and The Art of T. S. Eliot.

`If one had to say where can you find in fewer than 1,000 pages the best of English poetry, here it is. Daily Telegraph