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 John Dryden and William Morris as well as themes on Victorian Poetry, August, The Female Poet 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
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