Poetry Please!
More Poetry Please
Published on 21. November 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-7528-5786-2 (ISBN)
Description
An illustrated edition of the bestselling collection of poems taken from the popular Radio 4 programme.
Alongside such familiar favourites as Edward Thomas's 'Adlestrop', John Masefield's 'Sea-Fever', Thomas Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' and Stevie Smith's 'Not Waving But Drowning', here are Jenny Joseph threatening to be a disreputable old lady, Patrick Chalmers on the wisdom of the fairground, V.L. Edminson on a good cure for bad temper and F.W. Harvey celebrating the comical duck. Heroism, the seasons, birth, death, work and eccentric characters: these are poems for every mood and taste, from the whole range of verse in English
Alongside such familiar favourites as Edward Thomas's 'Adlestrop', John Masefield's 'Sea-Fever', Thomas Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' and Stevie Smith's 'Not Waving But Drowning', here are Jenny Joseph threatening to be a disreputable old lady, Patrick Chalmers on the wisdom of the fairground, V.L. Edminson on a good cure for bad temper and F.W. Harvey celebrating the comical duck. Heroism, the seasons, birth, death, work and eccentric characters: these are poems for every mood and taste, from the whole range of verse in English
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Illustrations
40 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 179 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
426 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7528-5786-2 (9780752857862)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Previous edition
Book
10/1999
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
€29.91
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