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Summary

Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words.  The English language has well over a million of them and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one.  But often they use them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition.  Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings. 
 
Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to children’s textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today.  
 
Where to start? How to do that? Poetry can be difficult. We’ve put together some very eclectic Poetry Hours, with a broad range of poets and themes, to entice you and seduce you with all manner of temptations.   
 
In this hour we introduce poets of the quality and breadth of Alexander Pope as well as themes on January, Cavalier Poets, Night and more. 
 
All of them are from Portable Poetry, a dedicated poetry publisher. We believe that poetry should be a part of our everyday lives, uplifting the soul & reaching the parts that other arts can’t.  Our range of audiobooks and ebooks cover volumes on some of our greatest poets to anthologies of seasons, months, places and a wide range of themes.  Portable Poetry can found at iTunes, Audible, the digital music section on Amazon and most other digital stores.  
 
This audio book is also duplicated in print as an ebook. Same title. Same words. Perhaps a different experience. But with Amazon’s whispersync you can pick up and put down on any device – start on audio, continue in print and any which way after that.   
 
Portable poetry – Let us join you for the journey. 
 
 
The Poetry Hour – Volume 17 
Alexander Pope – An Introduction 
Summer by Alexander Pope 
Solitude by Alexander Pope 
The Dunicad. An Extract of Book I by Alexander Pope 
January  
Sonnet LIX. Written at Ampton, Suffolk. January 1838 by Henry Alford 
At the Entering of the New Year by Thomas Hardy 
The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell 
It is Winter by Daniel Sheehan 
Pray, to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David Thoreau 
January 1795 by Mary Darby Robinson 
The Cavalier Poets – An Introduction 
The Given Heart by Abraham Cowley 
Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller 
Epigram LXV – To My Muse by Ben Jonson 
Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell 
Love’s End by Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury 
Love Conquer’d by Richard Lovelace 
To Sappho by Robert Herrick 
Lips & Eyes by Thomas Carew 
I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling 
The Poetry of GK Chesterton - An Introduction 
The Englishman by GK Chesterton 
The Rolling English Road by GK Chesterton 
The Convert by GK Chesterton 
The Last Hero by GK Chesterton 
Americanisation by GK Chesterton 
Who Goes Home by GK Chesterton 
The Poetry of Night - An Introduction 
Prolong the Night by Renee Vivien 
I Weary Tonight, I Weary by Alexander Anderson 
Sonnet LXVI – The Night Flood Rakes by Charlotte Smith 
A Prayer in Darkness by GK Chesterton 
The Night by Alfred Lichtenstein 
From The City of Dreadful Night by James Thomson 
In Drear Nighted December by John Keats 
The Slave’s Singing at Midnight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
Sleep on Thine Eyes by Hafiz 
John Keats – A Tribute in Verse 
John Keats by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
The Poetry of Keats by George Meredith 
For the Anniversary of John Keats Death by Sara Teasdale 
The Grave of Keats by Oscar Wilde

Duration: about 1 hour (01:01:25)
Publishing date: 2020-01-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

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