trish204's review
5.0
This was the last of Folio Society's season anthologies I hadn't had yet. As the title already says, it contains an assortment of poems about summer.
We get poems by famous names such as Pablo Neruda, Samuel Beckett, Emily Bronte, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Walt Whitman or Christina Rossetti (there are many more). However, there were also a number of authors I hadn't yet heard about, thus introducing me to as-yet unknown poem which was a nice surprise.
It might seem unoriginal, but some of my favourites were Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 (Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?) as well as Christina Rossetti's excerpt of Goblin Market. The little linguist in me best loved Samuel Beckett's Poem in French and English. Though you usually can't go wrong with other classic poets with me either. ;)
As usual, the truly special thing about this book is that it is interspersed with small and large illustrations. Here are the four 2-page-spreads contained in this book:
Sorry, for some reason, GR isn't showing these two so here are the direct links:
https://i.ibb.co/JFzgv7R/IMG-2748.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/jwBb89V/IMG-6220.jpg
(Interesting colour selection.)
It's always hard for any curator to find the perfect mix of well-known (and beloved) pieces while also enchanting the reader with unknown and beautiful ones. The poems in this anthology might not have been the best selection imaginable but reading this hommage to the hot season was nevertheless quite wonderful.
We get poems by famous names such as Pablo Neruda, Samuel Beckett, Emily Bronte, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Walt Whitman or Christina Rossetti (there are many more). However, there were also a number of authors I hadn't yet heard about, thus introducing me to as-yet unknown poem which was a nice surprise.
It might seem unoriginal, but some of my favourites were Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 (Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?) as well as Christina Rossetti's excerpt of Goblin Market. The little linguist in me best loved Samuel Beckett's Poem in French and English. Though you usually can't go wrong with other classic poets with me either. ;)
As usual, the truly special thing about this book is that it is interspersed with small and large illustrations. Here are the four 2-page-spreads contained in this book:
Sorry, for some reason, GR isn't showing these two so here are the direct links:
https://i.ibb.co/JFzgv7R/IMG-2748.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/jwBb89V/IMG-6220.jpg
(Interesting colour selection.)
It's always hard for any curator to find the perfect mix of well-known (and beloved) pieces while also enchanting the reader with unknown and beautiful ones. The poems in this anthology might not have been the best selection imaginable but reading this hommage to the hot season was nevertheless quite wonderful.
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