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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 Robert Herrick and Herman Melville as well as themes on Westminster Memorials, December 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 19 
Robert Herrick.  An Introduction 
An Hymn to the Muses by Robert Herrick 
His Farewell to Sack by Robert Herrick 
His Return To London by Robert Herrick 
To Electra by Robert Herrick 
To Find God by Robert Herrick 
The Lake Poets. An Introduction 
Frost At Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge  
Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey 
I Travell’d Amongst Unknown Men by William Wordsworth 
It Was An April Morning Fresh And Clear by William Wordsworth 
December 
Come, Come Thou Bleak December Wind (Fragment 3) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
Winter Stores by Charlotte Bronte 
The Death of the Old Year by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
December 27th 1879 by George MacDonald 
Herman Melville.  An Introduction 
John Marr & Other Sailors by Herman Melville 
Father Mapples Hymn (from Moby Dick) by Herman Melville 
Gettysburg by Herman Melville 
The Berg, A Dream by Herman Melville 
Dupont’s Round Fight, November 1851 by Herman Melville 
Aurora Borealis by Herman Melville 
Shelley’s Vision by Herman Melville 
The March into Virginia by Herman Melville 
Westminster Memorials – An Introduction 
First Love by John Clare 
To an Infant by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
The Village by Oliver Goldsmith 
His Meditation Upon Death by Robert Herrick 
Virtue by George Herbert 
When I Have Fears by John Keats 
William Shakespeare – A Tribute in Verse 
On Shakespeare by John Milton 
Shakespeare by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
The Spirit of Shakespeare by George Meredith 
Shakespeare by Matthew Arnold

Duration: about 1 hour (01:00:37)
Publishing date: 2020-01-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

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