Download or read book The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse written by Iona Opie and published by Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fifty-nine poems spans six hundred years of literary tradition, from Chaucer to Auden, and includes such selections as Pope's "Rape of the Lock" and Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner."