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'A collection of favourite half-remembered lines and phrases from school days' - The Times____________________You may remember the famous opening lines, 'Tyger tyger, burning bright'? and 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' but would you be able to name the poems or the poets? The English language is jam-packed with wonderful verses that we've all heard at some point, but probably forgotten.
I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud helps us
remember all those
long-forgotten poems that we were taught at school, together with short biographies of the poets and introductions to the poems themselves.
This well-rounded
poetry anthology features such greats as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge, Kipling, Heaney and Yeats, the poems you may have once learned and others that have informed our everyday speech.
Complete with a masterly index that allows readers to search not just by
first lines, but by
well-known phrases,
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud is a perfect addition to any poetry lover's collection.
About the author
Ana Sampson grew up in Kent. She studied English Literature at the University of Sheffield and gained a BA and MA before starting a career in publishing PR. Ana has contributed articles to various publications including Writers' Market UK, The Book Club Bible and The Bookseller. She has appeared on television and radio discussing books, book clubs, teenage diaries and poetry. She has compiled several collections of poetry for Michael O'Mara Books including I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, Tyger Tyger Burning Bright, Poems to Learn by Heart and Green and Pleasant Land.
