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By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember (Penguin) [Audiobook] (Audio Cassette)

by Ted Hughes (Reader)

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Publisher: Penguin (29 Sep 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 014086749X
ISBN-13: 978-0140867497
Product Dimensions: 13.8 x 10.4 x 1.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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BY HEART is dedicated to the proposition that a great, traditional, but now sadly neglected skill, the memorizing of poetry, is capable of being revived. A short introduction explains how, and the body of the work is 101 great poems spaning 4 centuries and ranging from Shakespeare and Keats through to Auden and Heaney, offering a 'mental gymnasium' in which the memory can be exercised and trained in the most pleasurable way.

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Ted Hughes was born in Yorkshire. His first book, THE HAWK IN THE RAIN, was published in 1957. Since then he has published many volumes of poetry and prose. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful collection of poems, 4 April 2001

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This review is from: By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember (Faber Poetry) (Paperback)

By Heart is a collection of 101 great poems.

Says who? Says Ted Hughes, the late poet laureate. The introduction alone is worth the price of the book; Hughes tells how to memorize poems using the creative, intuitive right brain.

The collection includes old favourites by Robert Frost, Coleridge, Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot and Emily Dickenson. But everyone will find revelations here. Brilliant poems by poets you've never heard of. Or brilliant poems by poets you've heard of but just never come across. For me, the poems of a previous poet laureate - John Betjemen - were a wonderful discovery.

As a parent and teacher, I highly recommend this book to parents and other teachers. These are poems to teach your children! You might want to start with 'The Eagle' by Tennyson:

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;

Close to the sun in lonely lands,

Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;

He watches from his mountain walls,

And like a thunderbolt he falls.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good book of poems, 3 Feb 2005

By	pry_cpy (Oxford, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember (Faber Poetry) (Paperback)

I never cared for poetry before, but this book has stirred me to learn about 30 poems so far and I'm very grateful for Ted Hughes challenging me to learn them 'by heart'. I actually bought the book for my wife a few years ago, and I only looked at it after hearing some quote of Macbeth's famous 'Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow' speech on the radio and thinking I should make some effort to learn it (since I'd done Macbeth at school). The speech is in this book, and from there and I've been going through the book picking out poems that either I vaguely knew or liked the sound of. I practice while driving to work, and it's surprising how the poems stick in your head once you've managed to remember them once. I even managed to memorise Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey' which is over 5 pages long!

The only bad thing about this book is there's really a lot of poems about death or misery in one form or another, which perhaps reflects Hughes' outlook on life (I don't know much about him, but he died soon after this book was published, I think).

Despite this, I highly recommend the book as it has some great poems in it, and it managed to single-handedly convert me into someone who actually likes poetry now.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Been there. Done that., 2 Nov 2007

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Sorry but this was a great disappointment. As a collection it bears a close resemblance to a school primer and offers no signs of the poems having been chosen except on the basis they are famous. Some of them are really not even technically that good.Maybe it is too much to hope that a good poet can show clear strong taste of his own. Would not recommend it except to a reader who does not know any poems and is starting from scratch. Otherwise a poor choice for a bookclub. A pity.

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5.0 out of 5 stars By Heart is a great gift for friends
This is a small treasure of poetry to give friends of all ages for birthdays and other special occasions.

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