lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This edition is edited by Becky Brown.

This elegant, slim volume of writing is full of carefully chosen classic poetry and prose which is by turn moving, thought provoking, comforting and sorrowful.

Helpfully divided into different sections, Funeral Readings and Poems faces up to the enormity of death and loss as well as the deep emotions that ensue. There are many famous poems here such as 'Crossing the Bar' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and 'How do I Love Thee?' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as well as lesser known contributions from poets such as Edna Vincent Millay and letters sent by Cassandra Austen.