Best-Loved Poems

Little, Brown UK. Very Good. 6.25 x 0.75 x 8.13 inches. Paperback. 2002. 224 pages.<br>This highly accessible collection gathers together the best-loved gems of English language verse, from the deeply mo ving to the hilariously silly. The poems span the entire range of verse from high drama to stuff-and-nonsense and are presented in nine sections: Poems of Childhood and Youth; Poems of Love and M arriage; Poems of Life; Poems of Loss and Comfort; Poems of War a nd Peace; Poems to Read Aloud; Poems to Read Quietly; Poems of An imals and Nature and Poems of Magic and Mystery. The anthology i ncludes works by William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Seamus Heaney, Robe rt Burns, T S Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, W B Yeats and many, many mo re. The poems have all been chosen and arranged by Neil Philip an d the volume is illustrated throughout with watercolour borders a nd decorative motifs by Isabelle Brent, glowing with her trademar k gold leaf. Editorial Reviews .