Classic Poems for Boys

Author Various
Narrator Benjamin Soames, Roy McMillan, Rachel Bavidge, Jasper Britton, Robert Glenister, Anton Lesser, Benjamin Zephaniah
Publisher Naxos AudioBooks
Publish Date 1 July 2012
Run Time 1 hours and 5 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage: Poetry.

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Classic Poems for Boys comprises a delightfully varied set of poems for 5-10-year olds. From rousing favourites like Felicia Dorothea Hemans’s Casabianca and John Keats’s A Song About Myself, to dreamy, thoughtful poems by Rudyard Kipling and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, this is a collection to be treasured.

Critics Review

All the narrators in this production excel, but Michael Caineu2019s rendering of Kiplingu2019s If and Benjamin Zephaniahu2019s delivery of his own Talking Turkeys are standouts. A century or more ago, this was the home entertainment system: young people would memorise popular poems and recite them after dinner. Some of the poetry here is light entertainment (W.S. Gilbertu2019s and Lewis Carrollu2019s, for example), and some, like If, is moral exhortation. There are also tales of adventure (Casabianca and The Tale of East and West are fine examples) that carry moral lessons. Some of the morals may be dated, but the poems deserve to be experienced as they were intended u2013 read aloud by expert readers.

D.M.H., AudioFile

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