A collection of 46 poems, including the top ten, which were chosen as favourites in a BBC listeners' poll. They include Kipling's "If", which received the highest number of votes, Wordsworth's "Daffodils", Tennyson's "The Lady of Shallot", and contemporary works such as Wendy Cope's "Bloody Men".
Listen to the sound of English as it was meant to be heard. This collection of timeless British and American poems is an experience to be treasured.
The readings, by brilliant classic actors Alexander Scourby, Nancy Wickwire, and Bramwell Fletcher, are presented in the order they appear in The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Third Edition, and are selected for their ability to delight. The poetry is also among the most anthologized verse in the English language. It is simply a collection of the best
Рифмовки помогут весело и эффективно усвоить наиболее употребительные грамматические конструкции английского языка, превратить обучение в интересную игру. Данное пособие может быть использовано как во время занятий в школе, лицее, гимназии, на курсах, так и во внеклассной работе и дома.
This collection focuses on a woman's point of view in love poetry, and juxtaposes poems by women and poems about women to raise questions about how femininity is constructed. Although most medieval "woman's songs" are either anonymous or male-authored lyrics in a popular style, the term can usefully be expanded to cover poetry composed by women, and poetry that is aristocratic or learned rather than popular. Poetry from ancient Greece and Rome that resonates with the medieval poems is also included here.
