Author(s): Margaret Bradley

Poetry

Once again, such familiar classics as Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress', John Keats's 'To Autumn', T.S. Eliot's 'Journey of the Magi' and Robert Frost's 'Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening' take turns with an eclectic selection of lighter or less famous verses - Joyce Grenfell on the ages of woman, John Betjeman demolishing bad taste, Jon Silkin on the death of his son, and Ruth Pitter laughing at a potato. Ballads, laments, odes, satires, songs or prayers: these are poems for every mood and taste, illustrated with specially commissioned watercolours by a talented young artist.