Classic FM 100 Favourite Poems

by Mike Read and Simon Callow

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340713208
• ISBN13: 9780340713204
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Length: 304 Pages

Customer Reviews

From FM listeners in London

This is a review of the book edition. This selection from an FM station in London has a distinct British flavor. Arranged alphabetically by author, we stroll from "Dover Beach" (Matthew Arnold), to "When you are old" (Yeats). Along the way are various fun animals: Macavity the mystery cat, Blake's Tiger, Chesterton's Donkey, and Lawrence's Snake. Perhaps some of the longer poems are not to my taste (e.g. Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"). Each poet is introduced with a short, useful biography. The most popular poem of these listeners is Wordsworth "The Daffodils".