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The Poetry Hour - Volume 14

William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, John Donne

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 14 - An Introduction 
John Donne – An Introduction 
Death Be Not Proud by John Donne 
The Good Morrow by John Donne 
The Expiration by John Donne 
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning by John Donne 
 
Westminster Memorials – An Introduction 
Longing by Matthew Arnold 
London by William Blake 
Heaven by Rupert Brooke 
Apostasy by Charlotte Bronte 
When We Two Parted by Lord Byron 
He That is Down Needs Fear No Fall by John Bunyan 
Turtle Soup by Lewis Carroll 
A Thought For A Lonely Death Bed by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
 
November 
November by Thomas hood 
November by Amy Lowell 
November by John Payne 
A November Night by Sara Teasdale 
At Day Close In November by Thomas Hardy 
 
The Poetry of William Shakespeare - An Introduction 
If Music Be the Food of Love, from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare 
How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been (Sonnet 97) by William Shakespeare 
Shall I Compare Thee to A Summers Day (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare 
The Witches Spell by William Shakespeare 
Full Fathom Five by William Shakespeare 
No Longer Mourn For Me by William Shakespeare 
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare 
 
The Female Poet – An Introduction. Volume 2 
No Coward Soul is Mine by Emily Bronte 
If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
If Infinite Worlds, Infinite Centres by Margaret Cavendish 
Isabella Valancy Crawford – We Parted in Silence 
When My Love Did What I Would Not, What I Would Not by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 
I’m Ceded – I’ve Stopped Being Theirs by Emily Dickenson 
Ah, Silly Pug by Queen Elizabeth I 
Sweet Evenings Come and Go Love by George Eliot 
 
The Poets of 19th Century America. An Introduction – Volume 2 
Heaven is What I Cannot Reach by Emily Dickinson 
Knee Deep in June by James Whitcomb Riley 
Prologue by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
Summer Wing by William Cullen Bryant 
Goodbye by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
 
Jane Austen – An Introduction 
When Stretch'd on One's Bed by Jane Austen 
My Dearest Frank, I Wish You Joy by Jane Austen
Available since: 01/11/2018.

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