Alongside such familiar favourites as Edward Thomass Adlestrop, John Masefields Sea-Fever, Thomas Grays Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Stevie Smiths Not Waving But Drowning, here are Jenny Joseph threatening to be a disreputable old lady, Patrick Chalmers on the wisdom of the fairground, V.L. Edminson on a good cure for bad temper and F.W. Harvey celebrating the comical duck. Heroism, the seasons, birth, death, work and eccentric characters: these are poems for every mood and taste, from the whole range of verse in English