RHYME AND REASON (PB)

Some people worry that they don't appreciate poetry. But poetry isn't written to be appreciated, it’s written to be enjoyed. For six centuries people have been reading poetry for fun, romance, faith and entertainment. From a medieval accountant (called Chaucer) trying to entertain his lord, past a doomed love affair in the Tower of London, through adoring sonnets and notebooks filled with dirty poems, and into the heart of Byromania, find out why poetry has had such an enduring hold on the British psyche.