Once upon a time men and women of sense and sensibility knew by heart dozens of poems - Shakespeare's sonnets, stirring patriotic verse, odes to churchyards and elegies for the departed, the music of Swinburne or Poe or Yeats.
Poems are meant to be voiced and A Poem a Day includes 366 poems old and new - one for each day of the year - worth learning by heart.
Only two criteria were demanded of each poem for inclusion in this collection - it had to be short enough to learn in a day, and.
Steerforth Press Poem a day: vol. 1: 366 poems, old and new - one for each day of the year, paperback/karen mccosker
