Story Lines: A Book of Narrative Verse

This is a story book, a reading collection of poems to enjoy for both the stories they tell and the poetry they hold. They are heroic, comic, tragic, satiric, romantic, enigmatic, mythic, erotic—from rousing adventures to domestic dramas. The writers are from Britain, Ireland, United States, Canada, and Australia, including household names like Shakespeare and Keats as well as lesser-known writers, covering almost 600 years since Chaucer. Third expanded edition.