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Essential Poems (To Fall in Love With) Kindle Edition

by Daisy Goodwin (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
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Forget chocolate, exotic lingerie, or marriage counselors -- the only props you'll ever need, whether you are in love or out of it, are the poems in this book. There are verses here to console you when the phone doesn't ring or the divorce papers have been signed, and poems that celebrate the joy of being in love, from the first kiss to walking down the aisle (for the second time). These essential poems, which include never-before-anthologized works, will tell you the truth about love.

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    HarperCollins e-books
  5. Publication date
    November 16, 2010
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    3374 KB
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About the Author

Daisy Goodwin studied nineteenth-century history at university and has been using it ever since. She has written two bestselling novels set in the Victorian era, My Last Duchess and The Fortune Hunter, as well as the screenplay for Masterpiece’s Victoria on PBS. She has three dogs, two children, and a husband.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003YUCEFM
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins e-books (November 16, 2010)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 16, 2010
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3374 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

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4.4 out of 5 stars
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Darice T
5.0 out of 5 stars Love it.
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2014
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I already own the hardcopy version of this book but I bought it again and read a few aloud. love that he listens and comments on poetry, not his forte, but shared anyway.
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washington customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2016
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Love listening to these poems.
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The Rebecca Review
3.0 out of 5 stars Romantic Love Gained and Lost
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2007
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Daisy Goodwin has chosen poems to represent various stages of romantic love. Many of the poems are warm and cozy while others speak of distance and disdain. In modern poetry books it is often difficult to find poems that rhyme, but here there are quite a few familiar poems that you may have read while at school. You may recognize "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell. While there are some old favorites there are also some new adventures in less familiar poems.

The poems range from cute to complex and from serious to humorous. At the start of each section there is a short note that gives an introduction to the poems to follow. There are some interesting tidbits that make reading the poems more enjoyable. Some of the poets include: Robert Browning, Nina Bourne, Wendy Cope, John Donne, W. H. Auden, Rosemary Tonks, Elizabeth Bishop, William Wordsworth and Matthew Arnold.

Daisy Goodwin suggests that you only read a few poems at a time but most are so short it doesn't take much time to read them all. After all, how else will you find the poem that speaks directly to you? With that said, I enjoyed the first half of the poems more than the last half which had the theme of love lost.

~The Rebecca Review
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Zoe
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome poetry collection!!!
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2006
This colleciton of poetry is probably the best collection of poetry I've read in awhile! Other poetry collections consists of what i consider academic poetry. This book contains very light hearted sweet, romantic poetry as well as deeper romantic poems from all types of poets from Shakespeare to Lord Bryon to British contemporary poet Wendy Cope. It contains different sections for different types of love-- from falling in love, dealing with infidelity, growing out of love! I've read it so many times. I have learned to love e.e. cummings poetry because of this book!! It's amazing and will make you learn to love and enjoy poetry, even if you don't currently reading poetry!

So many other poetry collections are too filled with heavy imagery that really sullens your day but this collection will absolutely lift you up! :-)
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Cyber Hawk
1.0 out of 5 stars A Poetic Failure
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2005
A very disappointing collection. It is interesting to note that Daisy Goodwin is the creator of a number of British television lifestyle programmes including one called "Bring Your Husband To Heel". Perhaps it isn't surprising therefore that someone whose idea of a loving relationship encompasses the use of spousal dog training should compile a book of love poetry that is about as romantic as Canine Distemper.
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Vera McAteer
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Variety
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 23, 2014
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Great variety of poets and poems, both male and female. Happy, sad, wryly funny. I would recommend this to young, middle-aged and romantics of all ages.
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Phil-Don
5.0 out of 5 stars Une anthologie très intéressante
Reviewed in France on December 19, 2009
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Les anthologies de poésie ont tendance à se ressembler, avec les mêmes textes reproduits encore et toujours. Cette anthologie fait exception, je dois dire. Bien sûr, on y retrouve quelques incontournables d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, mais pour une grande majorité ce sont des poèmes que je ne connaissais pas. Et la sélection de Daisy Goodwin m'a beaucoup plu, avec des poèmes lisibles et compréhensibles (et donc touchant le lecteur) - plutôt qu'obscurs et intellectuellement prétentieux.
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Heather
5.0 out of 5 stars poetry guru?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2016
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daisy Goodwin chooses the best poems around!
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3.0 out of 5 stars disappointing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 10, 2012
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the interpretation of each poem is fine but why do they have to act? it is my opinion that a poem should be read by possibly experienced readers - and this is the case here - sitting at a table without external interruptions, music or noises of any type, for me there are too many noises and they spoil the reading and interpretation of the poems.
with the risk of repeating myself maybe I am old fashioned but I love poems to be read in absolute silence by - if possible - experienced reader who can convey feeling and have high interpretation skills but here even if the readers are great 99 times out of 100
there are noises on the background, so one understands the poem is also acted and personally I would not have agreed to poems being read like this.
some of them have also been modernized and in some cases it spoils the poem itself in my opinion
for example on CD 1 the sonet 129 - if I remember correctly - by
Shakespeare, one hears a lady leaving a message on someone's voice mail, but to be fair in Shakespeare's time there were not telephones or voice mail so in my opinion that gives a touch of unrealism to the poem spoiling the genuinity and authenticity.
I am not contesting the choice of the poems but some of these poems were already published in the BBC collection the nation's favourite love poems sadly not available on CD.
it is also my opinion that sometimes one enjoys the poems better without knowing the history behind it
especially the ones one can relate to. but if one knows the history and the history behind those poems is too different from one's own then one might not like it or does not relate to it anymore with the result of not enjoying the poem anymore in certain cases. the poem love filosophy is an example
I would recommend buying the nation's favourite love poems instead, you get more poems even though you also have music at the beginning and the end but even so it is a great audio book, better than this one in my opinion.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2016
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Everyone delighted - I bought 2
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