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Great Motorcycle
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Great Modern Poets

The Great Modern Poets and CD is the perfect introduction to the finest poetry of the 20th century. This ideal gift is now complete with an 80-minute audio CD featuring original recordings of 29 inspiring poems read by their authors. Here the listener will find beautiful verse by the greatest poets of the modern era including: W.B Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree; Robert Frosts The Road Not Taken and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; Wallace Stevens Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself; T.S. Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; John Betjemans A Shropshire Lad and The Licorice Fields at Pontefract; W.H. Audens The Shield of Achilles; Dylan Thomas A Refusal to Mourn...; Ted Hughes Thrushes; Sylvia Plaths Daddy; and a special full-length reading of Howl by Allen Ginsburg
among many other much-loved classics. Accompanying the CD is a beautifully illustrated book containing over 150 complete and unabridged poems covering Thomas Hardy W.B. Yeats D.H. Lawrence Robert Frost T.S. Eliot The War Poets E.E. Cummings W.H. Auden Dylan Thomas Ezra Proud Sylvia Plath and many more. Each chapter comprises introductory"ations an illustration a biography of the poet a selection of their key poems and simple explanations of the themes. With an introduction that suggests ways to appreciate the poems and a glossary that demystifies the concepts and movements of modern poetry The Great Modern Poets and CD is an ideal welcome to the pleasures and insights poetry has to offer.
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    The Great Modern Poets & CD is the perfect introduction to the finest poetry of the 20th century. This ideal gift is now complete with an 80-minute audio CD featuring original recordings of 29 inspiring poems read by their authors. Here the listener will find beautiful verse by the greatest poets of the modern era including: W.B Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree; Robert Frosts The Road Not Taken & Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; Wallace Stevens Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself; T.S. Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; John Betjemans A Shropshire Lad & The Licorice Fields at Pontefract; W.H. Audens The Shield of Achilles; Dylan Thomas A Refusal to Mourn...; Ted Hughes Thrushes; Sylvia Plaths Daddy; & a special full-length reading of Howl by Allen Ginsburg among many other much-loved classics. Accompanying the CD is a beautifully illustrated book containing over 150 complete & unabridged poems covering Thomas Hardy W.B. Yeats D.H. Lawrence Robert Frost T.S. Eliot The War Poets E.E. Cummings W.H. Auden Dylan Thomas Ezra Proud Sylvia Plath & many more. Each chapter comprises introductory"ations an illustration a biography of the poet a selection of their key poems & simple explanations of the themes. With an introduction that suggests ways to appreciate the poems & a glossary that demystifies the concepts & movements of modern poetry The Great Modern Poets & CD is an ideal welcome to the pleasures & insights poetry has to offer.

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