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All of poetry’s greatest hits, from the classics of Wordsworth and Pope to modern-day poets W H Auden and Ted Hughes.

Do you remember the famous opening lines, ‘Tyger tyger, burning bright’? Or ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ But would you be able to name the poems or the poets? The English language is jam-packed with wonderful verses that we’ve all heard at some point, but probably forgotten. I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud will remind you of all those long-forgotten poems that you were taught at school, together with minibiographies and introductions. Including:

• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Coleridge
• ‘If ’ – Rudyard Kipling
• ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ –Wilfred Owen
• ‘Song of Myself ’ –Walt Whitman
• ‘Digging’ – Seamus Heaney
• ‘Not Waving But Drowning’ – Stevie Smith

Complete with an index of famous lines as well as authors, any poetry enthusiast will love the collection of best-loved poems alongside the lively commentary.