Product Description

Classic FM One Hundred Favourite Poems is a rich and varied treasury which includes not only the famous, best-loved poems you would expect to find - and all the famous poets - but also some wonderful, less well-known works. This is a selection that will enthrall, move and delight, whether the poems are familiar or being read for the first time.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #187160 in Books
• Published on: 1997-12-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

About the Author
As well as his renown as a presenter on Classic FM and many other radio stations, Mike Read is also a published poet and an expert on the life and work of Rupert Brooke. He is also the compiler of the bestselling book and audio CLASSIC FM 100 HUMOROUS POEMS.

Customer Reviews

Not what I expected
The title of this set is "One hundred favourite poems". What it doesn't say is that the poems are presented in the form of a music chart: each poem is preceded by a commentary to the tune of "and in place 5 of this top one-hundred etc." This kind of presentation may appeal to a radio audience but here it soon becomes boring. A reading of Tennyson's Lady of Shalott is among the "top 100", which is perfectly deserved, but why include only the first four or five stanzas? The Lady of Shalott tells a complete, self-contained story: the least they could have done is to tell the listener that this was only an excerpt. Finally, my main grudge with this production is about the intrusive music. Accompanying music is seldom a plus, and is often a nuisance. At the most it can be used to mark the beginning or the end of a piece but it should vanish once the reading begins. Here you will hear Kipling's Glory of the Garden with a violin whining in the background until the bitter end. As far as I could judge the music was not even circumstantial, it was, in this particular instance, Mozart. Why not salsa or the Beatles? At least one in three poems is ruined by music that won't go away.

Intrusive music!
'Stopping by woods on a snowy evening' was absolutely destroyed by the intrusive music! As the poem is about
' suicide ' , I nearly jumped off the nearest cliff(lol)because of the awful music which shouldn't be there!

Classic FM's One Hundred Favourite Poems
Just what it says on the box ... a CD of poems - however, the advertising on Classic FM was misleading as some of the more well known poems were not read by those whom you would expect - John Hannah was not reading the famous bit from 'Four Weddings...' for instance.