Rare Puffin Books 1st edition, published 1974.
All poetry is magic. Charles Causley's far-ranging anthology includes not only incantations and curses, and poems about elves, changelings, wizards, ghosts and mermaids, but it also introduces poems on the mystery and magic of the natural world and everyday life those happenings that perhaps we take for granted. Mist and wind, sun and moon, these and other natural phenomena are charged with a magic close to our senses, our minds and imaginations. Magic is not just a faraway thing of the past but is also to be discovered here, today. But wherever one finds magic, one thing seems certain: the language of magic always has been - and always must be the language of poetry.
This selection of magic verse extends from the songs of primitive societies and Anglo-Saxon verses to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Blake, Emily Brontë, Robert Burns, W. S. Gilbert, Kipling, W. B. Yeats, Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, John Berjeman and dozens of others down to the work of such younger poets as Brian Patten and Jeni Couzyn. Barbara Świderska's illustrations visually echo the spell-binding quality of the poems in this magical collection.
Condition grading: Good. Minor wear to cover edges and spine ends. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Rare Puffin Books 1st edition, published 1974.
All poetry is magic. Charles Causley's far-ranging anthology includes not only incantations and curses, and poems about elves, changelings, wizards, ghosts and mermaids, but it also introduces poems on the mystery and magic of the natural world and everyday life those happenings that perhaps we take for granted. Mist and wind, sun and moon, these and other natural phenomena are charged with a magic close to our senses, our minds and imaginations. Magic is not just a faraway thing of the past but is also to be discovered here, today. But wherever one finds magic, one thing seems certain: the language of magic always has been - and always must be the language of poetry.
This selection of magic verse extends from the songs of primitive societies and Anglo-Saxon verses to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Blake, Emily Brontë, Robert Burns, W. S. Gilbert, Kipling, W. B. Yeats, Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, John Berjeman and dozens of others down to the work of such younger poets as Brian Patten and Jeni Couzyn. Barbara Świderska's illustrations visually echo the spell-binding quality of the poems in this magical collection.
Condition grading: Good. Minor wear to cover edges and spine ends. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
