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Classic American Poetry - 65 Favourite Poems written by Various Famous Poets performed by Garrick Hagon, Liza Ross and William Hookins on Audio CD (Unabridged)

Classic American Poetry - 65 Favourite Poems written by Various Famous Poets performed by Garrick Hagon, Liza Ross and William Hookins on Audio CD (Unabridged)£14.99

Walt Whitman said, "...poetry is the voice of the nation, expressing its deepest concerns, ambitions and longings," which is certainly true of the great classic poetry of America. This wide-ranging anthology, from the earliest poets of the 16th century to the present day, reflects the changing preoccupations and visions of Americans, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe...

Poetry Please - The Nation's Best-Loved Poems written by Various Great Poets performed by Anton Lesser and Adjoa Andoh on Audio CD (Unabridged)

Poetry Please - The Nation's Best-Loved Poems written by Various Great Poets performed by Anton Lesser and Adjoa Andoh on Audio CD (Unabridged)
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ISBN:  9780571303311
Genre - Main:  Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Poetry
Duration:  130 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Various Great Poets
Performer 1:  Anton Lesser
Performer 2:  Adjoa Andoh

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BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. First aired in 1979, the programme, a request show which broadcasts to two million listeners a week, has become a unique record of the country's best-loved poems over the decades since its inception. The BBC has looked back through its rich archive...

of recordings to produce a poll of the most asked for and most broadcast pieces ever: fifty of those poems are read here by Adjoa Andoh and Anton Lesser, both regular voices for the programme.

The selection includes poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Blake, Rupert Brooke, Lord Byron, G.K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, John Keats, Edward Lear, Sylvia Plath, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, William Wordsworth, and W.B. Yeats

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