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ISBN: 9780192763501 - One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children
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One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children

Michael Harrison, Christopher Stuart-Clark

ISBN: 9780192763501
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Edition: New edition
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An anthology of poems to stimulate the emotions, whether evoking the comforting silence of true friendship, the thrill of sea tempests in the night, the power of hunger, or the joy of the first stirrings of love. It is divided into seven themed sections such as mystery, animals, childhood, people, scene, war, and love.

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This is a reflective and beautifully put-together anthology of poems to stimulate the emotions, whether evoking the comforting silence of true friendship, the thrill of sea tempests in the night, the power of hunger, or the joy of the first stirrings of love. Divided into seven themed sections (mystery, animals, childhood, people, scene, war, and love), it includes many classics by authors such as Walter de la Mare, G.K. Chesterton, Dylan Thomas, Ogden Nash, Michael Rosen, Eleanor Farjeon, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, E.E. Cummings, Roger McGough, and Philip Larkin.
 
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