Nation's Favourite Poems
Nation's Favourite Poems
In a national poll conducted to discover Britain's favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling's `If -' was voted number one. This unique anthology brings together over forty poems from the poll, including the top ten.
Here is poignant war poetry (Wilfred Owen's `Dulce et Decorum Est' and `Anthem for Doomed Youth', Rupert Brooke's `The Soldier' and Siegfried Sassoon's `Everyone Sang' ); romantic verse such as Shakespeare's `Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?' and W. B. Yeats' `When You Are Old'; Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear's great nonsense poems `Jabberwocky' and `The Owl and the Pussy-Cat', and much more. Classics such as Wordsworth's `The Daffodils' and Tennyson's `The Lady of Shallot' sit alongside contemporary poetry like Allan Ahlberg's `Please Mrs Butler' and Wendy Cope's `Bloody Men'.
Superbly read by John Nettles, Siobhan Redmond, Greg Wise and Emma Fielding, this popular collection includes many of the very best examples ofBritish verse, as chosen by poetry lovers nationwide.
The poems included in this collection are:
1 `If -' by Rudyard Kipling, read by John Nettles
2 `The Lady of Shallot' by Alfred Lord Tennyson, read by Siobhan Redmond
3 `The Listeners' by Walter de la Mare, read by Greg Wise
4 `Not Waving but Drowning' by Stevie Smith, read by Siobhan Redmond
5 `The Daffodils' by William Wordsworth, read by John Nettles
6 `To Autumn' by John Keats, read by Siobhan Redmond
7 `The Lake Isle of Innisfree' by William Butler Yeats, read by Emma Fielding
8 `Dulce et Decorum Est' by Wilfred Owen, read by Greg Wise
9 `Ode to a Nightingale' by John Keats, read by Siobhan Redmond
10 `He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' by William Butler Yeats, read by John Nettles
11 `Remember'
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In a national poll conducted to discover Britain's favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling's `If -' was voted number one. This unique anthology brings together over forty poems from the poll, including the top ten.
Here is poignant war poetry (Wilfred Owen's `Dulce et Decorum Est' and `Anthem for Doomed Youth', Rupert Brooke's `The Soldier' and Siegfried Sassoon's `Everyone Sang' ); romantic verse such as Shakespeare's `Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?' and W. B. Yeats' `When You Are Old'; Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear's great nonsense poems `Jabberwocky' and `The Owl and the Pussy-Cat', and much more. Classics such as Wordsworth's `The Daffodils' and Tennyson's `The Lady of Shallot' sit alongside contemporary poetry like Allan Ahlberg's `Please Mrs Butler' and Wendy Cope's `Bloody Men'.
Superbly read by John Nettles, Siobhan Redmond, Greg Wise and Emma Fielding, this popular collection includes many of the very best examples ofBritish verse, as chosen by poetry lovers nationwide.
The poems included in this collection are:
1 `If -' by Rudyard Kipling, read by John Nettles
2 `The Lady of Shallot' by Alfred Lord Tennyson, read by Siobhan Redmond
3 `The Listeners' by Walter de la Mare, read by Greg Wise
4 `Not Waving but Drowning' by Stevie Smith, read by Siobhan Redmond
5 `The Daffodils' by William Wordsworth, read by John Nettles
6 `To Autumn' by John Keats, read by Siobhan Redmond
7 `The Lake Isle of Innisfree' by William Butler Yeats, read by Emma Fielding
8 `Dulce et Decorum Est' by Wilfred Owen, read by Greg Wise
9 `Ode to a Nightingale' by John Keats, read by Siobhan Redmond
10 `He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' by William Butler Yeats, read by John Nettles
11 `Remember'
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