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Penguin's Poems for Life (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)

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Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics (25 Sep 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0140424709
ISBN-13: 978-0140424706
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 3 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare’s idea of the “seven ages” of a human life, this new anthology brings together the best-loved poems in English to inspire, comfort and delight readers for a lifetime. Beginning with babies, the book is divided into sections on childhood, growing up, making a living and making love, family life, getting older, and approaching death, ending with poems of mourning and commemoration. Ranging from Chaucer to Carol Ann Duffy, via Shakespeare, Keats, and Lemn Sissay, this book offers something for each of those moments in life – whether falling in love, finding your first grey hair or saying your final goodbyes – when only a poem will do.

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Laura Barber is former editorial director for Penguin Classics and now publishes contemporary literature. She lives in London. Laura Barber is former editorial director for Penguin Classics and now publishes contemporary literature. She lives in London.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A near perfect anthology - to give as a gift or for your own library, 27 Oct 2007

By	Gilgamesh (London) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Penguin's Poems for Life (Penguin Hardback Classics) (Hardcover)

This wonderfully organized collection of poems takes you through life from birth through childhoold, first love, marriage, parenthood, growing old, dying and mourning. And what's particularly appealing about it is the selection of poems - yes, you'll find many old favourites but also appropriate contemporary poems. It's a wonderful gift for a friend, lover or relative - anyone who loves poetry. Perhaps most important of all it's beautifully bound in cloth, with a ribbon marker, generously typeset and a pleasure to hold.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good Anthology In Every Sense, 8 Oct 2008

By	T. KIRBY "TK" (Dublin, Ireland.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was asked by a friend abroad to find some English poems suitable for children in the 8-12 age group. He was recalling the stuff in our old primary school readers,e.g. Tennyson, Scott, Rosetti, etc.
In this unassuming volume I think I have found many poems suitable for that age group. But yet so much more for those of us who are older.
This volume selects around 360 poems from over 100 poets who wrote in English. The poems are grouped to match the different phases (and related concerns) of life from birth to death.
There are poems in this from many well-known poets through the ages from Chaucer to Plath. There are also several less-well known poets included.

Clearly, this type of anthology was well thought out from both the literary and the marketing point of view. This collection will sell well because of its providing a diverse variety of touching verse for all ages. But it will also stimulate new demand for the work of many of the more forgotten (if not totally unknown to some of us!) poets selected in it.

Ms Barber guides a motley group of readers through the foggier ridges of thought towards the fertile valley of shared emotion.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Pneguins Poems for Life, 17 May 2009

By	Mrs. Sheila Fergusson "kfergusson" (Scotland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Bought this book for a friend's big birthday as she is an avid poetry reader. Every time we talk she has to tell me about another poem in the book that is wonderful. I think I will now buy the book for myself as she seems to really enjoy it. A wide selection of modern and old poems.

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