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The Poetry Hour - Volume 18 - cover

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The Poetry Hour - Volume 18

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Edmund Spenser

Publisher: Portable Poetry

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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 Ben Jonson and Jalalludin Rumi as well as themes on The Female Poet, Hell, Victorian Poetry 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 18 
Edmund Spenser – An Introduction 
Sonnet – One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand by Edmund Spenser 
Shepherd’s Calendar. IV – April by Edmund Spenser 
 
The Poetry of Evenings 
The Evening Darkens Over by Robert Seymour Bridges 
Sweet Evenings Come and Go Love by George Eliot 
A Twilight in Middle March by Francis Ledwidge 
A Summer Evening Courtyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershireby by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
The Red Sunsets by Mathilde Blind 
Madonna of the Evening Flowers by Amy Lowell 
Sunset by HP Lovecraft 
How the Old Mountains Drip with Sunset by Emily Dickinson 
 
The Female Poet. An Introduction – Volume 5 
Winter, My Secret by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
Sonnet LXXI by Charlotte Smith 
Indian Summer by Sara Teasdale 
The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Katharine Tynan 
On Virtue by Phillis Wheatley 
A World Worth Living In by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
Sonnet XIV by Mary Wroth 
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - An Introduction 
On Refusal of Aid Between Nations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
Sacrament Hymn by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
The Kiss by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
Troy Town by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
Willow Wood - Sonnet II by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
Willow Wood – Sonnet IV by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
 
The Poetry of Wind and Rain - An Introduction 
Sudden Shower by John Clare 
There Came A Wind Like a Bugle by Emily Dickinson 
The Rainy Day by Rabindranath Tagore 
The Storm by George Herbert 
Rainy Night by Alfred Lichtenstein 
 
Victorian Poetry – An Introduction 
The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
A Match by Algernon Swinburne 
Maternity by Alice Meynell 
Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rossetti 
The Toys by Coventry Patmore 
The Message of the March Wind by William Morris 
Vita Lampada by Henry Newbolt
Available since: 01/11/2018.

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