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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 13 - An Introduction 
Ben Jonson - An Introduction 
A Celebration of Charis – IV – Her Triumph by Ben Jonson 
Epigram LXV – To My Muse by Ben Jonson  
The Masque of Christmas by Ben Jonson 
To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare and What He Hath Left Us by Ben Jonson 
The Poetry of Hell – An Introduction 
Inferno by Dante. Canto 3. 
An Introduction to Jaluluddin Rumi 
The Oilman and his Parrot by Rumi 
The Jealously of God by Rumi 
The Flame of Love by Rumi 
The Female Poet – An Introduction - Volume 1 
Nearer My God To Thee by Sarah Flower Adams  
The Willing Mistress by Aphra Behn  
Winter by Anne Bradstreet  
Fluctuations by Anne Bronte  
Pleasure by Charlotte Bronte  
Victorian Poetry - An Introduction 
A Farewell to Youth by Alfred Austin  
How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning  
The Rolling English Road by GK Chesterton  
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll  
Among the Rocks by Robert Browning  
The Wheel by William Butler Yeats  
Idlers Calendar – Twelve Sonnets for the months – June by Wilfred Scawen Blunt  
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 by Alice Cary

Duration: about 1 hour (00:50:19)
Publishing date: 2020-01-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

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