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 - My Life in Verse. A journey in Poetry

Title: My Life in Verse. A journey in Poetry
Description: Penguin Classics, 2009. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 269. An inspiring collection of poems that have touched hearts and changed lives.Poems can encourage and console us, make us laugh and lift our spirits, and offer us comfort throughout our lives. This book contains some of the most uplifting and life-affirming poems ever written - about love and loss, heartbreak and home - based on the personal passions and discoveries of four well-known figures.among them are poems chosen by actress Sheila Hancock exploring human relationships and the loss of a loved one, spanning writers from Tennyson to Blake and Larkin. Comic Robert Webb has selected the modern verse that inspired him, such as the love sonnets of E.E. Cummings and the wordplay of Don Paterson. Musician Cerys Matthews celebrates the rich heritage of Wales, Ireland and Scotland, including the work of W.B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas and Robert Burns. And writer Malorie Blackman chooses the remarkable variety of poetry that spoke to her, from Psalm 23 to Roald Dahl and Benjamin Zepaniah.Bringing together voices old and new, from Shakespeare to Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson to nonsense rhymes, My Life in Verse gives you poems to cherish for a lifetime. ISBN: 9781846141874. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

Keywords: 9781846141874

Price: EUR 12.00 = appr. US$ 13.04 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2069662

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