Including poets as diverse as John Betjeman and Ted Hughes, Siegfried Sassoon and Allan Ahlberg, and subjects from all avenues of life - war, family life, love, death, religion, the countryside, animals and comedy - the whole breadth of the nation's life during the 20th century is encapsulated here.
To celebrate the end of the millennium, the BBC have brought together 100 of the most celebrated and loved poems of the last hundred years. Featured poets include John Betjeman, Ted Hughes, Siegfried Sassoon and Allan Ahlberg and every subject imaginable is covered from war, family life and love, to death, religion, the countryside, animals and comedy. Should be a good seller, judging by the success of "The Nation's Favourite Comic Poems".
