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.
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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’s Past
Walter de la Mare
From Selected Poems
Published by Faber & Faber
The Farmer’s 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 201416:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 22 Mar 201423:30BBC Radio 4
