The Methuen Book of Poems for Every Day"The Methuen Book of Poems for Every Day includes 366 poems by over two hundred poets from antiquity to the present. From Blake to Betjeman and Whitman to Wilde, the book blends familiar classics with unknown gems old and new. The result is at once a celebration of the greatest poets and their finest work, of the endless variety of the year - and of poetry itself, in all the glorious diversity of the form: lyric, epic and elegiac, sonnet, ballad, song, satire and romance." "Here are poems of every kind, to suit each day, each mood and season, all tastes and all ages: reflective, exuberant, mourning or joyful, loving or laughing. They chart every trajectory of human experience and emotion; and at the same time, they give it context within the shape of the year." "These poems are accompanied by notes that set them, day by day, in their historical record. Concise and informative, these include other notable events of that date, from births and deaths to coronations and catastrophes."--BOOK JACKET. |
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The Road not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood , And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveller , long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth ; Then took the other , as just as ...
The Road not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood , And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveller , long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth ; Then took the other , as just as ...
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The Way Through the Woods They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago . Weather and rain have undone it again , And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods Before they planted the trees .
The Way Through the Woods They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago . Weather and rain have undone it again , And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods Before they planted the trees .
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The Rolling English Road Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode , The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road . A reeling road , a rolling road , that rambles round the shire , And after him the parson ran ...
The Rolling English Road Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode , The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road . A reeling road , a rolling road , that rambles round the shire , And after him the parson ran ...
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| Title | The Methuen Book of Poems for Every Day |
| Author | Methuen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Methuen, 2006 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 22 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0413774562, 9780413774569 |
| Length | 536 pages |
| Subjects | › Poetry / Anthologies (multiple authors) |
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