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English Verse: The Best of the Twentieth Century

Author : Various, Edited by Edward Leeson

Performed By : Julian Glover & Isla Blair

Publisher : Harper Collins UK

Runtime : 1 hour 39 minutes

Categories : Poetry

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Representing the work of more than thirty poets, and extending from Thomas Hardy�??s lines on the loss of Titanic to the present-day concerns of Seamus Heaney, The Best of Twentieth-Century Poetry offers an extensive survey of English poetry of the last hundred years. It includes established favourites like T S Eliot�??s The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, W H Auden�??s Stop all the Clocks and In Memory of W B Yeats, and Dylan Thomas�??s Fern Hill, together with a generous selection of poetry from both world wars. Embracing a wide range of styles and moods, this new selection captures the continuing richness of the English poetic tradition.

Includes the works of:

Thomas Hardy
Rudyard Kipling
Julian Grenfell
Edwin Muir
Dylan thomas
Stevie Smith
Philip Larkin
Seamus Heaney

All poems are taken from The Time Book of English Verse, edited by Edward Leeson.

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John Betjeman: A First Class Collection

Author : Sir John Betjeman

Performed By : Various

Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Runtime : 2 hours 30 minutes

Categories : Autobiography
Biographical
Poetry
Biographical
British

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Sir John Betjeman's unique relationship with the BBC left a lasting legacy of poetry, readings and performances. To celebrate the centenary of his birth A First Class Collection features a selection of some of his most memorable and best-loved poetry.

 

Sir John Betjeman was one of the best-known and loved Poet Laureates and even a hundred years after his birth he continues to attract acclaim and admiration.

Some of his fascinating BBC Archive recordings can be enjoyed again in this specially selected collection of poetry. A First Class Collection features the poet's own readings of some of his most popular works, as well as readings specially commissioned for BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please , and new exclusive readings, from actors Derek Jacobi, Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Fry, Susan Jameson and Samuel West .

As an additional tribute, the present Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion , reads his own introduction to John Murray's new edition of the Collected Poems .

This compilation will bring to a new generation of admirers the remarkable poetic voice of one of the twentieth-century's best-loved personalities.

Due to the age and the off-air source of some recordings, the sound quality may at times vary