Description
Product ID: | 9780008596026 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | National Trust |
Title: | Nature Poems |
Subtitle: | Treasured Classics and New Favourites |
Authors: | Author: Deborah Alma, National Trust Books |
Page Count: | 160 |
Subjects: | Poetry anthologies (various poets), Poetry anthologies (various poets), Nature and the natural world: general interest, Gift books, Natural history, Gift books, United Kingdom, Great Britain |
Description: | Select Guide Rating More than 100 poems about Britain's nature in a beautifully illustrated book More than 100 poems about Britain''s nature in a beautifully illustrated bookSeven chapters touch on different aspects of the British countryside, including seasons, birds and wildlife, woods, water, moors and mountains. This carefully chosen collection will inspire you to explore nature through a poet’s eye – the perfect antidote to ‘times when the world is too much with us’, as Wordsworth so beautifully put it.There are celebrated poems by the greats – Keats, Yeats, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, John Masefield, Robert Burns, Dylan Thomas – as well as others by contemporary poets whose work you will want to seek out and explore further, including Carol Anne Duffy, Simon Armitage and Jean Sprackland. Where poems have links to National Trust sites, footnotes are included to explain the connections. |
Imprint Name: | National Trust Books |
Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-04-13 |