The Nation's Favourite Poems

<p><b>Forty-five of Britain''s best-loved poems, read by John Nettles, Siobhan Redmond, Greg Wise and Emma Fielding.</b><br><br>In a national poll conducted to discover Britain''s favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling''s ''If -'' was voted number one. This unique anthology brings together over forty poems from the poll, including the top ten.<br><br>Here is poignant war poetry (Wilfred Owen''s ''Dulce et Decorum Est'' and ''Anthem for Doomed Youth'', Rupert Brooke''s ''The Soldier'' and Siegfried Sassoon''s ''Everyone Sang'' ); romantic verse such as Shakespeare''s ''Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer''s Day?'' and W. B. Yeats'' ''When You Are Old''; Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear''s great nonsense poems ''Jabberwocky'' and ''The Owl and the Pussy-Cat'', and much more. Classics such as Wordsworth''s ''The Daffodils'' and Tennyson''s ''The Lady of Shallot'' sit alongside contemporary poetry like Allan Ahlberg''s ''Please Mrs Butler'' and Wendy Cope''s ''Bloody Men''.<br><br>Superbly r