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    The Top 50 Poems: Fifty of the finest poems ever written
    The Top 50 Poems: Fifty of the finest poems ever written
    The Top 50 Poems: Fifty of the finest poems ever written
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    The Top 50 Poems: Fifty of the finest poems ever written

    Written by Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Dan Ariely and

    Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe and Gideon Wagner

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    About this audiobook

    Sometimes we just want the best. But that involves choices, judgements, decisions. And that all depends on our feelings, our mood at the time.

    Even more so with Poetry. Would we like a little more pathos, or love, or humour with that? Can we only choose one Keats? And ’If’? Surely Kipling wrote something else?

    So difficult to decide. This one or that? Is it easier to choose your fifty favourite poets or your fifty favourite poems?

    The argument can go on forever, certainly a few days. However what we can all agree on is that poets have a way with words that almost all of us respect and admire and can’t compete with. Who hasn’t wanted to quote some favourite lines to make a better point?

    In this volume we made those choices, judgements and decisions for you.

    Some you will love. Maybe not today but tomorrow. Others may not initially be your cup of tea. But they will all make you think and bring you closer to something..…or someone.

    This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing. Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Copyright Group
    Release dateJan 1, 2023
    ISBN9781787809086
    The Top 50 Poems: Fifty of the finest poems ever written
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    Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. After intermittently moving between India and England during his early life, he settled in the latter in 1889, published his novel The Light That Failed in 1891 and married Caroline (Carrie) Balestier the following year. They returned to her home in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote both The Jungle Book and its sequel, as well as Captains Courageous. He continued to write prolifically and was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 but his later years were darkened by the death of his son John at the Battle of Loos in 1915. He died in 1936.

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