Poetry > D Poetry

Advantages: good diverse selection
Disadvantages: a few really terrible poems!

I am really, really annoyed as I wrote this entire opinion and then deleted it so have to write it all again!! Okay... I chose this book when I won a prize at school for something (being brilliant probably, lol) a couple of years ago. I've never really been huge on owning books - I own a perfectly good library card - but I like poems and felt maybe I could do with some help getting through the day and night so I thought this would be a good choice. ...
...modern life'. If you believed its editor, Daisy Goodwin, youd think it was full of ready-made miracle cures to magically solve all your everyday problems. Get real, surely none of us are that naïve, but what this book does provide is a selection of poems old and new for every occasion, featuring famous poets and introducing not-so-famous ones. The book is divided into sections for each part of the day you need to tackle: there is 'GETTING OUT OF ... Read review

Advantages: Concise, honest style of writing, modern themes
Disadvantages: Difficult to get hold of the book because not many people are familiar with the author

...Dictionary of Quotations flinging around the kind of acidic, perfectly timed and devastatingly clever insults that everyone else wishes they could think of. The sum total of her writings is not great considering that in spite of suicide attempts she lived for over 70 years, but it is neverthless surprising that they are not better known and admired. Her poems show the same concise wit and originality as the epigrams for which she is famous, while ...
...sometimes duologues and sometimes omnisciently narrated, the stories use an honest simplicity of language to reflect the poignancy, isolation and brutality of life. In my opinion, Dorothy Parker is one of the best writers of the 20th century and it is a shame that she is not more widely read. ... Read review

Advantages: cheers you up
Disadvantages: you're left wanting more

After watching the programmes on television, telling us of tales of love and more recently Christmas poems, I wasn't surprised to find a whole stack of books edited by Daisy Goodwin on the shops shelves. But this is a good thing. This is a woman who understands and has been to places that we have all visited and some that we would rather not remember, and in this book there is a poem for every occasion. Ones that let us grieve and mourn, such a ...
...infamous Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep to poems that make us realise that maybe life isn't as bad as it seems like Streemin by Roger McGough and Loss by Wendy Cope. This book has it covered with poems that make you laugh and cry, and even a section called "Don't let the B******s Grind You Down." It holds within its small binding a cornucopia of poems some that you may know, others you may not, but with each section is an explanation and an insight, ... Read review

Advantages: An different aspect to the Bronte sisters
Disadvantages: All too short

Best Poems of the Bronte Sisters by Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte and Charlotte Bronte I would hazard a guess that everyone reading this review has heard of one or all of the Bronte sisters. They are better known of course for their novels including Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey and Jane Eyre. These multi talented sisters Emily, Anne and Charlotte, as well as writing their famous and widely read novels, also wrote poetry. In this small anthology, “Best ...
...with examples of their work. Published by Dover Publications on April 1st 1997 and edited by Candace Ward. The book contains 47 poems in total; 23 of Emily’s, 14 of Anne’s and 10 of Charlotte’s. It is however not the first analogy of poems by the sisters to be published. History of the Bronte Sister’s Poetry Emily and Anne invented their make-believe world of Gondal writing poems and stories to entertain themselves and each other. Charlotte inadvertently ... Read review

Advantages: Powerful and gripping storyline, Great contributions of all characters
Disadvantages: None that I have found

Written by Arthur Miller in the early 1950s during the time of the McCarthyism when the government blacklisted accused communists. Miller was also summoned in court and he wrote this play as a parable and links the Salem witch-hunt and the McCarthy trials which took place nearly 250 years apart. A very powerful play and an excellent one to study for GCSE English Literature for its revoloutionary work in the theatre and its portrayal of the human ...
...man's struggle to find and do what is right by him. With just 4 Acts and 5 important characters, this truly is a masterpiece. Proctor, a hard-working family man finds in the middle of lying and confessing to witchcraft, both of which go against his newly developed religious beliefs. ... Read review