Classic Fm Favourite Poems

Author : Classic FM
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 0340920041

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One Hundred Favourite Poems by Classic FM Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:30000110610726

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Classic FM Favourite Poems by Anonim Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 0340713208

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Classic FM One Hundred Favourite Poems by Mike Read Pdf

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 : Mike Read
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1859989829

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Classic FM 100 Favourite Poems by Mike Read Pdf

When Classic FM conducted a poll of the nation's 100 favourite poems in June 1997, they were overwhelmed by the response. These compact disks contains all 100 poems, each with an introduction by Mike Read, who conducted the poll on his breakfast show.

Author : Mike Read
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 0340728337

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Classic FM One Hundred Favourite Humorous Poems by Mike Read Pdf

A collection of the 100 favourite humorous poems of listeners to Classic FM. There are biographies of all the poets, who include Betjeman, Belloc, Brooke, Carroll, Chesterton, Eliot, W.S. Gilbert, Keats, Lear, McGough, Milne, and more.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:60164427

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Classic FM 100 Favourite Poems. [read by T.P. McKenna and Others] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1957-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385076968

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Favorite Poems Old and New by Anonim Pdf

"Children are poets before they grow up and they should live with poems. I hope this book will encourage them to do so."—Eleanor Roosevelt Beloved and treasured for over 60 years, here is the only poetry collection your family needs—brimming with favorite, classic poems carefully selected to inspire young readers. Over 700 classic and modern poems written by poets from William Shakespeare to J. R. R. Tolkien, Emily Dickinson to Langston Hughes, and covering a range of favorite topics—pets, playtime, family, nature, and nonsense—ensure that there’s a poem to please every child. A truly comprehensive collection that is the ideal way of introducing children to the joys of reading poetry. "If your children think they don't like poetry, expose them to this collection . . . and I defy them to resist its magic."—Kirkus "A fine book for parents to read aloud to their children."—Library Journal "This volume stands out for the comprehensiveness of its selection."—The Horn Book

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401202510

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Theory into Poetry by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Philip Smith
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486110349

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Favorite Poems of Childhood by Philip Smith Pdf

Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter," Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat," Eugene Field's "Wynken, Blynken and Nod," Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Swing," many more, all in large, easy-to-read type.

Author : Andrew Motion
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780241971628

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Poetry by Heart by Andrew Motion Pdf

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 : Griff Rhys Jones
Publisher : Random House
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9780563387824

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The Nation's Favourite Poems by Griff Rhys Jones Pdf

Contains the top 100 poems from a poll conducted by The Bookworm in 1995.

Author : William Sieghart
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571290130

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Winning Words by William Sieghart Pdf

Faster, higher, stronger: winning words are those that inspire you on to Olympian goals. From falling in love to overcoming adversity, celebrating a new born or learning to live with dignity: here is a book to inspire and to thrill through life's most magical moments. From William Shakespeare to Carol Ann Duffy, our most popular and best loved poets and poems are gathered in one essential collection, alongside many lesser known treasures that are waiting to be discovered. These are poems that help you to see the miraculous in the commonplace and turn the everyday into the exceptional - to discover, in Kipling's words, that yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.

Author : Jonathan Wordsworth
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141905655

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The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry by Jonathan Wordsworth Pdf

The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's 'Tyger', Coleridge's 'Khubla Khan' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. We also see familiar poets in an unaccustomed light, as Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley demonstrate their comic skills, while Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal.

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600085243

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Favorite Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Pdf

Author : Catherine Robson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691163376

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Heart Beats by Catherine Robson Pdf

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.