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Classic Poems for Boys
- Author
- Various
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Publish Date
- 1 July 2012
- Run Time
- 1 hour 5 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Critics Review
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All the narrators in this production excel, but Michael Caine’s rendering of Kipling’s If and Benjamin Zephaniah’s 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. Gilbert’s and Lewis Carroll’s, 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 – read aloud by expert readers.
D.M.H., AudioFile
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Details
- Author
- Various
- Narrator
- Benjamin Soames, Roy McMillan, Rachel Bavidge, Jasper Britton, Robert Glenister, Anton Lesser, Benjamin Zephaniah
- Duration
- 1 hour 5 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 July 2012
- ISBN
- 9781843796190
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage: Poetry
Synopsis
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.
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