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Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 256
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This delightful anthology is a timeless collection of poems chosen by Classic FM listeners. You'll find humorous limericks next to romantic sonnets, and traditional works next to modern classics. Discover poems for special occasions, as well as poems to suit any mood. Whether you're reading them for the first time or revisiting a classic, this is a selection to enchant, move and delight. One Hundred Favourite Poems is a poetry anthology for every bookshelf. Includes poems by Edward Lear, Sir John Betjeman, William Wordsworth, Robert Burns, William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Pam Ayres, Hilaire Belloc, John Donne, Cole Porter and Lord Byron.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 256
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This delightful anthology is a timeless collection of poems chosen by Classic FM listeners. You'll find humorous limericks next to romantic sonnets, and traditional works next to modern classics. Discover poems for special occasions, as well as poems to suit any mood. Whether you're reading them for the first time or revisiting a classic, this is a selection to enchant, move and delight. One Hundred Favourite Poems is a poetry anthology for every bookshelf. Includes poems by Edward Lear, Sir John Betjeman, William Wordsworth, Robert Burns, William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Pam Ayres, Hilaire Belloc, John Donne, Cole Porter and Lord Byron.
Author: Mike Read Publisher: ISBN: 9780340713204 Category : English poetry Languages : en Pages : 226
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Contains works chosen by Classic FM listeners in the poll to discover their favourite poems. This book includes poems by Betjeman, Kipling, Shakespeare, Yeats, Wordsworth and Auden, among many others, as well as biographies of the poets.
Author: Classic FM Publisher: ISBN: 9780340920046 Category : English poetry Languages : en Pages : 0
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This delightful anthology is a timeless collection of poems chosen by Classic FM listeners. With humorous limericks, romantic sonnets, traditional and modern classics, this book is a true refelction of the greatest and best-loved verse. Discover poems for special occasions, as well as poems to suit any mood. Whether you're reading them for the first time or revisiting a classic, this is a selection to enchant, move and delight. Classic FM Favourite Poems is an essential collection for every bookshelf. Poets include: Edward Lear, Sir John Betjeman, William Wordsworth, Robert Burns, William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Pam Ayres, Hilaire Belloc, John Donne, Cole Porter, Jenny Joseph, Lord Byron. Which poem has topped the list? Will it be Keats or Yeats, Jenny Joseph or Oscar Wilde? Find out how your favourite poem has rated.
Author: Sara Lodge Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 1526101645 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 240
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This is the first modern critical study of Thomas Hood, the popular and influential nineteenth-century poet, editor, cartoonist and voice of social protest. Acclaimed by Dickens, the Brownings and the Rossettis, Hood’s quirky, diverse output bridges the years between 1820 and 1845 and offers fascinating insights for Romanticists and Victorianists alike. Lodge’s timely book explores the relationship between Hood’s playfulness, his liberal politics, and contemporary cultural debate about labour and recreation, literary materiality and urban consumption. Each chapter examines something distinctive of interdisciplinary interest, including the early nineteenth-century print culture into which Hood was born; the traditional, urban and political ramifications of the grotesque art and literature aesthetic; the cultural politics of Hood’s trademark puns; theatre, leisure and the ‘labour question’. Lively and accessible, this book will appeal to scholars of nineteenth-century English Literature, Visual Arts and Cultural Studies.
Author: Catherine Robson Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691163375 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 312
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Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class. Heart Beats is the first book to examine how poetry recitation came to assume a central place in past curricular programs, and to investigate when and why the once-mandatory exercise declined. Telling the story of a lost pedagogical practice and its wide-ranging effects on two sides of the Atlantic, Catherine Robson explores how recitation altered the ordinary people who committed poems to heart, and changed the worlds in which they lived. Heart Beats begins by investigating recitation's progress within British and American public educational systems over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and weighs the factors that influenced which poems were most frequently assigned. Robson then scrutinizes the recitational fortunes of three short works that were once classroom classics: Felicia Hemans's "Casabianca," Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," and Charles Wolfe's "Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna." To conclude, the book considers W. E. Henley's "Invictus" and Rudyard Kipling's "If--," asking why the idea of the memorized poem arouses such different responses in the United States and Great Britain today. Focusing on vital connections between poems, individuals, and their communities, Heart Beats is an important study of the history and power of memorized poetry.
Author: Anne Harvey Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 075249984X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 235
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Edward Thomas never left the train that stopped briefly at a Cotswold station, Adlestrop, just before World War I, but what he saw resulted in one of the best known and loved English poems, Adlestrop. Generations of literary pilgrims have visited the village which inspired the poem, while many of today's writers have composed their own tributes to the poet and the place where, after the closure of the station, the nameboard was lovingly retained. This anthology explores Adlestrop's literary, topographical and railway associations. Anne Harvey investigates the origins of the poem: did the train really stop 'unwontedly'? Was it an express? Was Thomas travelling alone? His fascination with the railways began in boyhood and is seen in two of his little-known short stories, 'A Third-Class Carriage' and 'Death by Misadventure'. The book also examines the connection with Jane Austen, who visited her Leigh relatives at Adlestrop Park and Rectory, and there are poems from Peter Porter, Alan Brownjohn, P.J. Kavanagh, Dannie Abse and Brian Patten. A wide selection of illustrations includes facsimiles of Edward Thomas's original manuscript and notebook entries, photographs and fine wood engravings by well-known artists. This engaging anthology will appeal to all who have read and loved this classic poem.
Author: Andrew Motion Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0241971624 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 840
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Poetry by Heart - based on the hugely successful nationwide schools competition, 200 magical poems to learn by heart 'The poems we learn stay with us for the rest of our lives. They become personal and invaluable, and what's more they are free gifts - there for the taking' Simon Armitage Two years ago former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion had the idea of setting up Poetry by Heart - a nationwide annual competition for secondary schools which asked contestants to learn two or three poems and be judged on their recitations, first at school level, then regional, then in a national final held at London's National Portrait Gallery. It's proved a huge success, with hundreds of schools participating in the first year, and numbers up by 20% in the second. Coinciding with the start of the third year of competition, and published on National Poetry Day whose theme coincidentally in 2014 is Recitation, this Poetry by Heart anthology brings together the pool of poems - 200 altogether - from which contestants make their choices. Specially picked by Motion and his three co-editors, these poems make up a treasure house - of almost-unknown poems and familiar poems from the mainstream; love poems and war poems; funny poems and heartbroken poems; poems that recreate the world we know and poems written on the dark side of the moon. And all chosen with a view to their being recited out loud. From William Wordsworth to Wilfred Owen, Emily Brontë to Elizabeth Bishop this wonderfully enjoyable anthology will be enjoyed by all ages and includes the best poets from the past to the present day. In a groundbreaking feature, the book includes QR codes which allow readers to use their mobile phones to listen to recordings of the poems - many of them specially recorded by the poets themselves. Sir Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 till 2009, and is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, London. Jean Sprackland'sTilt won the Costa Poetry award in 2008. She is a Reader in Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Julie Blake is co-Founder and Director of The Full English, an organization based in Bristol which provides support to teachers of English Literature. Mike Dixon is an educational consultant specializing in English in the classroom.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9401202516 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 375
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At the beginning of the 21st century, there is still no generally accepted comprehensive definition of the lyric or differentiated modern toolkit for its analysis. The reception of poetry is largely characterised either by an empathetic identification of critics with the lyric persona or by exclusive interest in formal patterning. The present volume seeks to remedy this deficit. All the contributors ‘theorise’ the lyric to overcome the impasse of an impressionistic and narrowly formalistic critical debate on the genre. Their papers focus on a variety of different questions: the problem of establishing a framework for definition and classification; the search for dynamic and potent critical approaches; investigations of poetry's cultural performance and its fundamental relevance for the construction of group cohesion. The essays collected in this volume offer a consciously polyphonic range of theories and interpretations, suggesting to the reader a variety of theoretical frameworks and practical illustrations of how a discussion of poetry may be firmly grounded in modern literary theory.
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