This book is cool. Because it’s a bunch of selected readings, you can dip in and read for a few minutes (mostly) without committing yourself to reading say, the whole of the Canterbury Tales.

The reading is a little tricky. Words aren’t used in quite the same way. Spelling isn’t regular from one writer to the next. Sometimes it’s almost impossible to read (though by the third time through, it’s usually clear, if not, I skip on). And the poetry is so lyric it’s like reading a strange music.