Poetry please! 100 popular poems from the BBC Radio 4 programme - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0460022962 ISBN 13: 9780460022965

Publisher: Phoenix, 1985

Synopsis

Alongside such familiar favourites as Edward Thomas's 'Adlestrop', John Masefield's 'Sea-Fever', Thomas Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' and Stevie Smith's 'Not Waving But Drowning', here are Jenny Joseph threatening to be a disreputable old lady, Patrick Chalmers on the wisdom of the fairground, V.L. Edminson on a good cure for bad temper and F.W. Harvey celebrating the comical duck. Heroism, the seasons, birth, death, work and eccentric characters: these are poems for every mood and taste, from the whole range of verse in English

About this title

Book Description:

A compilaton of classic poems from the beloved Radio 4 series.

Synopsis:

This edition of the best-selling collection of poems taken from the Radio 4 programme is illustrated for the first time with water colour drawings by Meilo So. There are poems for every mood and taste, from the whole range of English verse, including heroism, the seasons, birth, death, work and eccentric characters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Phoenix
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0460022962
• ISBN 13: 9780460022965
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160