A Gift of Famous Poetry

A gift to treasure-a memorable collection poems by some of the greatest writers in the English language.The editor Stevie Smith, herself a poet of renown, has selected more than 80 poems capturing every shade of human thought and emotion love, loss, humour, pathos, beauty. She includes such famous names as WhitmanLongfellow, Herman Melville and Edgar Allen Poe. Britishwriters are also represented the immortal lines of KeatsHardy, Tennyson, Blake Byron, and others are featured in this pages The colour photographs which decorate the book do not, of course, attempt the impossible by trying to illustrate the poems. Rather, the ance and complement them by evoking the spirit of the natural scenes which inspired poems.