Music And Sweet Poetry
The paperback edition of a unique and enriching poetry anthology, originally published in 1968. This book of verse will delight lovers of poetry, music fans and musicians with humour and poignancy. There are over one hundred poems within the covers and they vividly illustrate the potency of music and its power of release, reflecting the relationship between words, text or song and music. It is a wide ranging anthology with contributions from Shakespeare to Percy French and a host of well known authors and poets in-between including W.H. Auden, Samuel Coleridge, Thomas Hardy and Laurie Lee. It contains unfamiliar literary treasures and is a textual celebration of music- affirming the joy that music brings.
