Best-Loved Poems

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Summary: Poetry to warm the cockles of your heart
Review: What an ABSOLUTE gem of a book! I just got it today and I can't believe I haven't come across it before!

Beautifully illustrated with gold trimmed pages, and arranged into nine thematic sections that cover many subjects including war, youth, love and life etc.

I sat with my mom and read out poems she had read to me when I was a child, along with ones she remembered from her childhood in the 1940s.

Who can forget such first lines as "Tyger, Tyger, burning bright in the forest of the night" (Blake) or "She walks in beauty like the night," (Lord Byron) and this is just a tiny taster of what is hidden in these wonderful glossy pages that make up this much understated book.

You have a cacophony of poets to choose from such as G.K.Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling, Christina Rossetti, Leigh Hunt, Rupert Brookes, Percy Shelley, and even sonnets from Shakespeare himself!

Don't miss the Philip Larkin's satirical ode to family relationships and Dorothy Parker's caustic ditty about life and death.

This is a book of poetry for all tastes, and all ages and if you can find a copy grab it and horde it away for those nights when there is nothing on TV and all you want to do is sit by the fire and read a jolly good book of verse.