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The Poetry Hour - Volume 15

John Dryden, Thomas Hardy, William Morris

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 15 
John Dryden. An Introduction 
Farewell Ungrateful Traitor by John Dryden 
Dreams by John Dryden 
Alexanders Feast or The Power of Music by John Dryden 
 
August 
August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg 
At Sundown by Daniel Sheehan 
A Summer Evening Churchyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershire by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
Moonlight Summer Moonlight by Emily Jane Bronte 
August by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale 
 
The Female Poet. An Introduction. Volume 3 
Good Night by Mary Gilmore 
Expecting the Lord by Anne Griffiths 
My Mother’s Kiss by Frances E W Harper 
Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe 
You Kissed Me by Josephine Slocum Hunt 
The Power of Words by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
Love, The Soul of Poetry by Anne Killigrew 
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 
Sonnet by Amy Levy 
 
Animal Poems – An Introduction 
The Fly by William Blake 
The City Mouse and the County Mouse by Christina Rossetti 
The Owl & the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear 
A Lobster Quadrille by Lewis Carroll 
From Baby Tortoise by DH Lawrence 
 
William Morris - An Introduction 
The Earthly Paradise – Apology by William Morris 
Our Hands Have Met by William Morris 
The Voice of Toil by William Morris 
A Garden By the Sea by William Morris 
The Message of the March Wind by William Morris 
 
Victorian Poetry - An Introduction 
A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy 
My Prayers Must met A Brazen Heaven by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
When Summer’s End is Nighing by AE Housman 
The Mother’s Son by Rudyard Kipling 
The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear 
Sonnet XXIX by George Meredith 
Between the Dusk of a Summer Night by William Ernest Henley
Available since: 01/11/2018.

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