The Book of 1000 Poems : Classic Collection for Children

The Book of 1000 Poems is one of the most popular children's poetry anthologies ever published. First published over forty years ago by Evans Bros, this wonderful collection has remained in print ever since, and is particularly popular in schools. Reissued now with an eye-catching and vibrant classic cover, this new-look edition will appeal to readers both young and old. Poets include: Hilaire Belloc, William Blake, Robert Browning, Enid Blyton, J. Bunyan, Lewis Carroll, G.K. Chesterton, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Samuel T. Coleridge, George Eliot, Eleanor Farjeon, Rose Fyleman, Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, Victor Hugo, James Joyce, J. Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Edward Lear, Walter de la Mare, John Masefield, A. A. Milne, E. Nesbitt, Christina Rosetti, Sir Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, P.Bysshe Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jonathan Swift, Lord Tennyson, W. M. Thackeray. Poems by Hilaire Belloc, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Walter de la Mare, Eleanor Farjeon, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, John Masefield and A. A. Milne can also be found in A Century of Children's Poems, compiled by John Foster. (Hardback published October 2002. Paperback publication date July 2002).