14/09/2008
Roger McGough spotlights poetry that spans the ages, with verse by the 8th century Chinese poet Du Fu, William Makepeace Thackeray, ee cummings and Polly Clark, to name just a few.
Ballade de la vie joyeuse by Max Beerbohm
From: Rhymes and Parodies
Puibl: Heinemann
i carry your heart by ee cummings
From: Complete Poems
Publ: Liveright
Joys of the World by Christophe Plantin
Maude Clare by Christina Rossetti
From: Everyman鈥檚 Book of Victorian Verse
Cats are Otherwise by Katherine Pierpoint
From: Truffle Beds
Publ: faber
here鈥檚 a little mouse by ee cummings
From: Complete Poems
Publ: Liveright
A Tragic Tale by William Makepeace Thackeray
From: The 成人快手 Book of Verse
Publ: Holt
Ballad of the Army Carts by Tu Fu, translated by David Hawkes
From: A Little Primer of Tu Fu
Publ: Oxford
The Many Faces of Jazz by Billy Collins
From: Taking off Emily Dickinson鈥檚 Clothes
Publ: Picador
Song by Edwin Muir
From: Collected Poems
Publ: Faber
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- Sun 14 Sep 2008 16:30成人快手 Radio 4
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