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365 poems - one for every day of the year - celebrating friendship, love and constancy.

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365 poems celebrating friendship, love and constancy.

This wonderful collection of poems celebrates friendship every day of the year. There are poems on the joys of companionship, encouragement, consolation, humour and love, making this a perfect gift for friends, family and partners.

Poems featured include Emily Bronte’s ‘Love and Friendship’ and Stevie Smith’s ‘Pleasures of friendship’, as well as writings from Keats, Norman MacCaig, Waldo Emerson and Amy Lowell.

Some of the most beautiful poems ever written are collected here to give us insight into the important things in life.

]]> Nature Poem For Every Day Of The Year https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/nature-poem-for-every-day-of-the-year/ Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/nature-poem-for-every-day-of-the-year/ 365 poems celebrating nature and the changing seasons.This is the perfect bedside companion for any nature or poetry fan, featuring famous odes from big-name poets alongside unsung poems from less-well-known writers.Each poem is chosen to chime with the natural world through the seasons. Spring is a time of hope, a season of new life with William Wordsworth’s daffodils, John Clare’s lambs and Christina Rossetti’s birdsong. Summer shifts into a time of leisure with long idyllic holidays in the countryside. According to Henry James, the two most beautiful words in the English language were ‘summer afternoon’, a sentiment echoed by Edward Thomas and Emily Dickinson. John Keats, William Blake and W. H. Auden are the poets we associate with autumn and this is possibly the most poetic season. The natural world, and the human one, hold onto the last lingering memories of summer before they turn to face the oncoming hardships of winter. Amy Lowell and George Meredith perfectly frame this time of year with their silver-fringed leaves and crimson berries. Winter can be savoured in poetry, rather than endured; bleak grey days are transformed into a world of glittering frost and snow-blanketed landscapes. Even in the darkest days life continues and soon we can turn our attention to the rebirth of spring.A wonderful collection of poems that help mark the daily turn of the seasons and all the rituals marking the significant moments of the year, from Candlemas to Christmas.

]]> Favourite Poems https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/favourite-poems/ Thu, 14 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/favourite-poems/ An anthology of classic poems that is perfect for bedside reading, accompanied by charming illustrations by Jane Robbins. From Chaucer to Carroll, Shakespeare to Shelley, enjoy the nation's favourite poets in this gorgeous anthology by the National Trust.

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From Chaucer to Carroll, Shakespeare to Shelley, enjoy the nation’s favourite poets in this gorgeous anthology by the National Trust. From Renaissance writers such as Christopher Marlowe, Romantics like Lord Byron and Modernists such as T S Eliot, explore a variety of poets from all ages. Also included in this selection are poets who are connected to National Trust properties such as Vita Sackville-West who lived at Sissinghurst and Thomas Hardy, whose cottage is looked after by the National Trust. The poems in this book are organised by themes to make it easy to find a poem that can console or amuse, or for special occasions like readings at christenings and weddings; ‘Velvet Footsteps’ celebrates our animal friends; ‘The Glimmering Landscape’ illustrates the beauty of our green isle; ‘Along the Sand’ explores smuggler’s coves and the moods of the sea; ‘The Noise of Battle’ recalls classic war poems.

 

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