MICHAEL O’MARA BOOKS
Green and
Pleasant Land
Best-Loved Poems of
the British Countryside
Publication date:
18/09/2014
Price: £9.99
Ana Sampson’s anthologies
have sold over 165,000
copies and include I
Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,
Tyger Tyger Burning Bright
and Poems to Learn by Heart.
She lives in London (and is
therefore greatly in need of
poems about the countryside.)
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From sheep-studded pastures and verdant
hills, through springtime woods and coastal
sunsets, to gliding swans and moonlit meadows, all the vistas of the British countryside
are celebrated in this beautiful anthology.
Green and Pleasant Land provides the fastest
route possible into the tranquil corners of the
rural landscape, with a healthy breath of fresh
air on every page.
This anthology gathers poems celebrating
each of the seasons and every time of day,
from Spring and the dew-soaked morning,
through lazy Summer and fruitful Autumn,
into the harsh beauties of the land in Winter
and by night.
Includes:
Dylan Thomas - Fern Hill • John Keats - To Autumn
• Matthew Arnold - Dover Beach • Samuel Taylor
Coleridge - Frost at Midnight • Thomas Hardy - The
Darkling Thrush • Rudyard Kipling - The Way Through
The Woods • Thomas Gray - Elegy Written in a
Country Churchyard • Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ode
to the West Wind • William Shakespeare - Sonnet
73 • Edward Thomas - Adelstrop • John Masefield Sea-Fever • Robert Browning - Home-Thoughts, from
Abroad • William Wordsworth - The Prelude • Gerald
Manley Hopkins - Pied Beauty • A E Housman - Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now • Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Media Opportunities
• Ana is an experienced broadcaster and available for
interview
• Author article: why poems can be as good for you
as a country walk; how poetry reflects our changing
relationship with the countryside
• Poetry quiz features written by the author
• National Poetry Day is 2nd October 2014
• Competition prizes & reader discount offers