Poetry

[plop1389]

Can anyone recommend a good book of poetry which is quite old but not all about love and seasons and the like

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[spudqueen]

It's not an old book, but I have a copy of 'Best-Loved Poems', edited by Neil Philip. It has the categories: Of Childhood and Youth; Of Love and Marriage; Of Life; Of Loss and Comfort ; Of War and Peace; To Read Aloud; To Read Quietl;y; Of Animals and Nature and Of Magic and Mystery. It was first published in 2000. ISBN, if you're interested, 0316724386

[woofgang]

Palgraves Golden Treasury is pretty old and about everything.

[Cetti]

I agree with woofgang, you can't go wrong with "The Golden Treasury". For something different choose just one poet and go for a 'selected poems' volume.

 My personal favourites are Walter De La Mare, Rudyard Kipling, John Betjeman and Thomas Hardy.

[woofgang]

Hello Cetti, nice to hear from you, you answered my first ever question on AB it was about the green eye of the little yellow god!

[scrambler]

The New Oxford book of English verse does it for me. the Edition by Helen Gardner in particular.

[Cetti]

Hello woofs, how worrying! 

Is that why you stayed, to see if there were any more idiots on the site? :-D

[woofgang]

No, I was amazed that there was even one other person in the multiverse who knew what i was on about!!

[simms]

Try anything by Gerard Manley Hopkins

[Peter Pedant]

god I have had such troublegetting into answer bank

any collection of bodry is called an anthology - anthos a flower and the bomes, they like flowers

try Other men's flowers by wavell the 2WW general

google anthology and you should get a zillion hits.