| Edition |
2007
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| Publication |
Essex, Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd, 2005.
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| Description |
511pPale blue spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
Great Poems offers a wide selection of favourite poems to suit everyone. In this lavishly illustrated book there are over 300 poems to be found in sections such as Love, Children's Poems, Wit and Humour, Food and Drink and Animals. Some great poets are represented here, like William Shakespeare and John Donne, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti and John Keats. Each poem has an information box with biographical details about the poet providing historical and literary context. There is a reading from the bible, sonnets from Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Shakespeare, even a poem by Lord Byron! Certainly something to keep everyone reading.
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| Contents |
Love
Events
Distant lands
Home and work
War and heroism
Animals
Children's poems
Wit and humour
Into the shadows
Food and drink
Nature
Weather and seasons
Life and death
Lasting classics
Index of first lines
Acknowledgements
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| Standard Number |
978184265762 Pb.
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