Poems to be Read Aloud: A Victorian Drawing Room Entertainment - Softcover

Tom Atkinson

 
9780946487004: Poems to be Read Aloud: A Victorian Drawing Room Entertainment

Synopsis

This poetry collection includes verse ranging from the tear-jerking ""Green Eye of the Yellow God"" to the rarely-printed, bawdy ""Eskimo Nell"". Much borrowed and rarely returned, this is a very popular book for reading aloud in very good company, preferably after a dram or twa. You are guaranteed a warm welcome if you arrive at a gathering with this little volume in your pocket.

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About the Author

Tom Atkinson was an RAF Commando in the Second World War, and worked for 20 years as an advisor to the Government of the Republic of Indonesia. He established Luath Press in 1981 and has written a number of guidebooks to the Highlands. He became interested in herbal medicine when his long-standing duodenal ulcer was cured by a herbalist in Wales.

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