Poems on the Underground
Author(s): JUDITH CHERNAIK EDITOR
This beautiful new edition of "Poems on the Underground" is published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Underground in 2013. Here 230 poems old and new, romantic, comic and sublime explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, families, dreams, war, music and the seasons, and feature poets from Sappho to Carol Ann Duffy and Wendy Cope, including Chaucer and Shakespeare, Milton, Blake and Shelley, Whitman and Dickinson, Yeats and Auden, Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott and a host of younger poets. It includes a new foreword and over two dozen poems not included in previous anthologies.
Product Information
Beautifully presented ... This makes it an ideal book to dip into. Few people would see this book lying around the house and not be tempted to quickly browse through and find a morsel of verse that meant something to them at that moment. Everyone will find their own favourites in the book A Common Reader
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Particular Books
- : 0.69
- : 30 September 2012
- : 134mm X 205mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 January 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : Illustrations
- : 320
- : 821.008
- : New edition
- : Hardback
- : JUDITH CHERNAIK EDITOR