In BBC television's Bookworm poll to find Britain's favourite love poem, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's How Do I Love Thee? was voted number one.

In this popular selection of over eighty poems, poets of every age consider that most universal of themes: love.

From traditional favourites such as Shakespeare's Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? and Robert Burns' A Red, Red Rose to contemporary poems such as John Fuller's Valentine and Ted Hughes' Lovesong, this anthology read by Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Charlotte Attenborough and Paul Rhys is proof that Britain is a nation of romantics at heart.

In this popular selection of over eighty poems, poets of every age consider that most universal of themes

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