Classic FM One Hundred Favourite Poems - Mike Read

Here are the works chosen by Classic FM listeners in the poll to discover their favourite poems. This is a rich and varied collection: here are not only the famous poems you would expect to find – and all the famous poets – but also some wonderful less well-known works, together with biographies of all the poets by Mike Read.

Includes work by Betjeman, Kipling, Shakespeare, Tennyson, Yeats, Wordsworth, Hardy, Larkin, Brooke, Eliot, Keats, Auden, Rossetti, Browning, Hopkins, Housman, Heaney, Hughes, Burns, Donne, Milne, Masefield, Frost and many others.