I Used to Know That is an ideal & accessible reference guide for adults wanting to brush up on their lost knowledge
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A collection of favourite half-remembered lines & phrases from school days The Times Featuring poets from Chaucer to Shakespeare, Auden to Plath, the book
Includes:: all the 'greatest hits' Guardian.co.uk Once you dip in & start you won't be able to stop...a wonderful anthology Tribune Sampson's enlightening collection offers a wide variety of poems, each enhanced by background material that lends useful context. From Shakespeare to Shelley, Blake to Brooke, anyone who loves poetry or appreciates the inherent richness of the English language will find much to relish The Good Book Guide This is an excellent collection of all those poems that you perhaps only half remember. Not only are there some of the most important poems in the language, but also potted biographies & an index of famous lines for those post-prandial 'guess the poem' quizzes. The perfect stocking filler Choice Magazine If you have a favourite poem you'll probably find it in I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, which contains some of the nation's best-loved offerings. The book also contains lots of interesting facts about poets & there's an index to help you search by a poem's most famous line Co-Operative Magazine Poetry fans will love I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud... dip into this treasure-trove of the nation's best loved poems & read about the writers behind them Bon Marche