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Poets on Poetry - The most artistic and creative form of writing we have a selection of poems from those artistic and creative minds about poetry itself - cover
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Poets on Poetry - The most artistic and creative form of writing we have a selection of poems from those artistic and creative minds about poetry itself

Matthew Arnold, Sarojini Naidu, Wallace Stevens

Narrator Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, Ghizela Rowe

Publisher: The Copyright Group

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Summary

Who has not tried to write a poem?  The poetic form of words seems to be rather easy.  In its basic form, which we learn as children, the rhyming couplet is, in a child’s written and spoken words, pure joy - success!  In the hands of a Shakespeare it is magnificent with a reach and understanding that the rest of us enjoy but are far from even attempting.    
 
As we listen to various poetic forms, schools and movements we can only react with wonder at how these innocent words are assembled to create symphonies of ideas, wonder and revelation.  The emotions they seek to invoke can be anything from happiness to sadness, from love to revulsion. 
 
Arnold, Stevens, Keats, Akhmatova, Browning, Herrick, Hood, Killigrew are but a few of the roll-call of wordsmiths who with mere words create ravenous beauty that reveals tender lines and sensitive verse on how and why they are who they are. 
 
01 - Poets on Poetry - An Introduction 
02 - When I Write Poems by Anna Akhmatova 
03 - Of My Poems by Thomas MacDonagh 
04 - An Apology For Her Poetry by Duchess of Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish 
05 - Sonnet 76 - Why is My Verse So Barren of New Pride by William Shakespeare 
06 - The Austerity of Poetry by Matthew Arnold 
07 - Of Modern Poetry by Wallace Stevens 
08 - Poetry by Claude McKay 
09 - The Poetry of Keats by George Meredith 
10 - Future Poetry by Alice Meynell 
11 - Sonnet 17 - Who Will Believe My Verse in Time to Come by William Shakespeare 
12 - Poetic Eggs by Ezra Pound 
13 - Poem by William Carlos Williams 
14 - On the Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats 
15 - Ode on the Poetical Character by William Collins 
16 - Introduction and Conclusion of a Long Poem by Alan Seeger 
17 - A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem by Charles Sackville, Earl Of Dorset 
18 - The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain by Wallace Stevens 
19 - The Poet and the Poem by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 
20 - Of English Verse by Edmund Waller 
21 - Love, The Soul of Poetry by Anne Killigrew 
22 - Why, If All Poets Crown Their Love with Verse by Emily Hickey 
23 - Verse Making Was the Least of My Virtues by Robert Browning 
24 - The Poet's Love-Song by Sarojini Naidu 
25 - A Letter to a Brother of the Pen in Tribulation by Aphra Behn 
26 - Not Every Day Fit for Verse by Robert Herrick 
27 - On the Poetic Muse by George Moses Horton 
28 - Sonnet - Written in Keats by Thomas Hood 
29 - Sonnet 86 -Was It the Proud Full Sail of His Great Verse by William Shakespeare 
30 - Song in Imitation of Shakespeare by James Beattie 
31 - The High-toned Old Christian Woman by Wallace Stevens 
32 - Poetry is a Destructive Force by Wallace Stevens 
33 - To My Most Dearly Loved Friend Henry Reynolds Esquire of Poets and Poesie by Michael Drayton 
34 - His Poetry His Pillar by Robert Herrick 
35 - To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses by Robert Herrick 
36 - Poem for the End by Ivor Gurney
Duration: about 1 hour (01:04:12)
Publishing date: 2022-08-08; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —