Michael O'Mara Books Ltd Paperback English
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud...
and other poems you half-remember from school
By Ana Sampson
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<p><b>'A collection of favourite half-remembered lines and phrases from school days' – <i>The Times</i></b><br><b>____________________</b><br><br><b>You may remember the famous opening lines, 'Tyger tyger, burning bright'? and 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' but would you be able to name the poems or the poets? </b><br><br>The English language is jam-packed with wonderful verses that we've all heard at some point, but probably forgotten. <i>I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud</i> helps us <b>remember</b> all those <b>long-forgotten </b>poems that we were taught at school, together with short biographies of the poets and introductions to the poems themselves. <br><br>This well-rounded <b>poetry anthology</b> features such greats as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge, Kipling, Heaney and Yeats, the poems you may have once learned and others that have informed our everyday speech. <br><br>Complete with a masterly index that allows readers to search not just by <b>first lines</b>, but by <b>well-known phrases</b>, <i>I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud</i> is a perfect addition to any poetry lover's collection.</p>
<p><b>'A collection of favourite half-remembered lines and phrases from school days' – <i>The Times</i></b><br><b>____________________</b><br><br><b>You may remember the famous opening lines, 'Tyger tyger, burning bright'? and 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' but would you be able to name the poems or the poets? </b><br><br>The English language is jam-packed with wonderful verses that we've all heard at some point, but probably forgotten. <i>I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud</i> helps us <b>remember</b> all those <b>long-forgotten </b>poems that we were taught at school, together with short biographies of the poets and introductions to the poems themselves. <br><br>This well-rounded <b>poetry anthology</b> features such greats as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge, Kipling, Heaney and Yeats, the poems you may have once learned and others that have informed our everyday speech. <br><br>Complete with a masterly index that allows readers to search not just by <b>first lines</b>, but by <b>well-known phrases</b>, <i>I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud</i> is a perfect addition to any poetry lover's collection.</p>