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Rating: 
Summary: Excellent collection
Review: All in all, I think this is a great selection of poems. What I like the most is that it includes more than the requisite 2 or 3 for a given poet. The most well-represented are Donne, Herbert, Herrick, Jonson, and Milton--each with at least half a dozen poems included. This was a great pleasure to discover, since I am a great fan of Donne. Also because I love Herbert, and his work is a lot harder to find in audio format. Others represented are Waller, Suckling, Marvel, Lovelace, and the rest of the gang you expect to find here.There are 101 poems spanning two cassettes. The order is not chronological, or even grouped by poet. Instead, you'll find small groupings of a poet's works spread throughout. Long poems are included, but usually preceded and followed by shorter ones. Donne is probably the best represented (by number of poems), with Herrick in second place. Surprisingly, Herbert is in the running for third place. A few of Milton's sonnets are included along with his most well-known long works. All of the readers are professional and do a great job. My only complaint is the audio quality. For a recent production, it has a truly amazing amount of tape hiss present. Furthermore, Penguin did not use a chrome tape or dolby noise reduction to help reduce it. Even for a normal bias tape, this one is very noisy. Had this not been the case, I would have rated it with 5 stars. Brandon Barnes
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