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 Whitman

Longfellow, Herman Melville and Edgar Allen Poe. British

writers are also represented the immortal lines of Keats

Hardy, 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.