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Edward Thomas, Charlotte Mew, Walter de la Mare

Roger McGough introduces a selection of requested poetry from three poets who were active one hundred years ago: Edward Thomas, Charlotte Mew and Walter de la Mare.

Roger McGough introduces a selection of requested poetry from three poets who were active one hundred years ago: Edward Thomas, Charlotte Mew and Walter de la Mare. In 1914, Charlotte Mew, who had one of the saddest lives in all poetry, was cautiously assembling poems for her first collection, The Farmer's Bride. Walter de la Mare had just published Peacock Pie, a book of his children's poems, which has remained immensely popular, with many reprints ever since. And the brief poetic career of Edward Thomas was just getting underway after he met the American poet Robert Frost and began turning his prose writing into poems. The readers are Eleanor Tremain, Peter Marinker and Anton Lesser. Producer: Tim Dee.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 22 Mar 2014 23:30

This Week's Poems

I So Liked Spring

By Charlotte Mew

From Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew

Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co

March

By Edward Thomas

From The Collected Poems and War Diary, 1917

Published by Faber & Faber

They Told Me

Walter de la Mare

From Selected Poems

Published by Faber & Faber

Requiescat

By Charlotte Mew

From Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew

Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co

The Hollow Wood

By Edward Thomas

From The Collected Poems and War Diary, 1917

Published by Faber & Faber

All That鈥檚 Past

Walter de la Mare

From Selected Poems

Published by Faber & Faber

The Farmer鈥檚 Bride

By Charlotte Mew

From Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew

Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co

Some One

Walter de la Mare

From Selected Poems

Published by Faber & Faber

The Combe

By Edward Thomas

From The Collected Poems and War Diary, 1917

Published by Faber & Faber

The Field

Walter de la Mare

From Selected Poems

Published by Faber & Faber

In the Fields

By Charlotte Mew

From Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew

Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co

Fare Well

Walter de la Mare

From Selected Poems

Published by Faber & Faber

Old Man

By Edward Thomas

From The Collected Poems and War Diary, 1917

Published by Faber & Faber

May 1915

By Charlotte Mew

From Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew

Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co

Seeds

Walter de la Mare

From Selected Poems

Published by Faber & Faber

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Roger McGough
Reader Eleanor Tremain
Reader Peter Marinker
Reader Anton Lesser
Producer Tim Dee

Broadcasts

  • Sun 16 Mar 2014 16:30
  • Sat 22 Mar 2014 23:30