This is an anthology of over 40 classic nature poems, read by some of our finest actors. The majesty of nature has always inspired poets, & this collection contains a selection of the very best verses praising the natural world. There are poems celebrating the seasons (Robert Browning's " Home Thoughts from Abroad", Shakespeare's " Blow", Blow Thou Winter Wind" & Gerald Manley Hopkins' " Spring"), the sweetness of birdsong (Keats' " Ode to a Nightingale", Thomas Hardy's " The Darkling Thrush" & Shelley's " To a Skylark"), the simple beauty of plants & flowers (Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", A. E. Housman's " Loveliest of Trees", The Cherry Now & Andrew Marvell's " The Garden"), & the melancholy & wild mystery of nature (Rudyard Kipling's " The Way Through the Woods", Yeats' " The Lake Isle of Innisfree") Evocatively read by Anthony Howell, Claire Rushbrook, David Schofield & Michael Maloney, these poems are sure to induce a sense of wonder.