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'The Nation's Favourites'


The Nation's Favourite Love Poems  Daisy Goodwin (Ed)

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A selection of 100 popular love poems, based on a nation-wide poll. They include John Donne's "The Good-Morrow", Shakespeare's sonnet "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?", Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress", and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How Do I Love Thee?".

The Nation's Favourite Poems  Griff Rhys Jones (Ed)

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In 1995 BBC Television's "Bookworm" programme conducted a poll amongst viewers to determine their fa vourite poems. The top 100 are presented in this book. They include the winner, Kipling's "If", and many other classics, as well as modern verse by writers such as Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes.

The Nation's Favourite Poems (Audio CD)
Narrators : John Nettles, Siobhan Redmond, Greg Wise, Emma Fielding

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A collection of 46 poems, including the top ten , which were chosen as favourites in a BBC listeners' poll. They include Kipling's "If", which received the highest number of votes, Wordsworth's "Daffodils", Tennyson's "The Lady of Shallot", and contemporary works such as Wendy Cope's "Bloody Men".

The Nation's Favourite Twentieth Century Poems  Griff Rhys Jones (Ed)

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This collection brings together a wealth of innovative poetry styles that have flourished in the 20th century, whether in the witty modern-day sonnets of Wendy Cope, the crazy poems of Spike Milligan, the prose poems of T.S. Elliot, or the rhythmic and vibrant outpourings of Benjamin Zephaniah.




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