Poems to Last a Lifetime
2004
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4.60
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308
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A contemporary new treasury of verse for every age of life. The extraordinary success of Daisy Goodwin's best-selling poetry collections has brought tens of thousands of new readers to the classics and to the work of many relatively unknown contemporary poets. Her instinctive sense of the way in which poetry in all its myriad forms can play a part in our daily lives, and her distinctive commentary on how it can do so, together with her acclaimed television series for BBC2, has made poetry, always close to the British heart, more popular than it has been for years. Now, in a book inspired by Palgrave's Golden Treasury, she chooses a much more ambitious selection. From Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and C. P. Cavafy's Ithaka to Wendy Cope and Vicki Feaver, this sumptuously produced, beautifully designed compendium of poems appropriate to every stage of our lives, from the moment we enter trailing clouds of glory to the time we first set foot upon the primrose path, will be a source of entertainment, consolation, insight, amusement, solace and ruminative satisfaction to people of all ages at all times of the year.
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Author
Daisy Goodwin
Author · 15 books
DAISY GOODWIN, a Harkness scholar who attended Columbia University’s film school after earning a degree in history at Cambridge University, is a leading television producer in the U.K. Her poetry anthologies, including 101 Poems That Could Save Your Life, have introduced many new readers to the pleasures of poetry, and she was Chair of the judging panel of the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction. That was the year she published her first novel the American Heiress ( My Last Duchess in UK), followed by The Fortune Hunter and now Victoria. She has also created VICTORIA the PBS/ITV series which starts in January. She has three dogs, two dogs, and one husband.
