The Poetry Hour - Volume 17
Written by Alexander Pope, G. K. Chesterton and John Keats
Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner and Ghizela Rowe
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The Poetry Hour – Volume 17
Alexander Pope – An Introduction
Summer by Alexander Pope
Solitude by Alexander Pope
The Dunicad. An Extract of Book I by Alexander Pope
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 1795 by Mary Darby Robinson
The Cavalier Poets – An Introduction
The Given Heart by Abraham Cowley
Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller
Epigram LXV – To My Muse by Ben Jonson
Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell
Love’s End by Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury
Love Conquer’d by Richard Lovelace
To Sappho by Robert Herrick
Lips & Eyes by Thomas Carew
I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling
The Poetry of GK Chesterton - An Introduction
The Englishman by GK Chesterton
The Rolling English Road by GK Chesterton
The Convert by GK Chesterton
The Last Hero by GK Chesterton
Americanisation by GK Chesterton
Who Goes Home by GK Chesterton
The Poetry of Night - An Introduction
Prolong the Night by Renee Vivien
I Weary Tonight, I Weary by Alexander Anderson
Sonnet LXVI – The Night Flood Rakes by Charlotte Smith
A Prayer in Darkness by GK Chesterton
The Night by Alfred Lichtenstein
From The City of Dreadful Night by James Thomson
In Drear Nighted December by John Keats
The Slave’s Singing at Midnight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sleep on Thine Eyes by Hafiz
John Keats – A Tribute in Verse
John Keats by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Poetry of Keats by George Meredith
For the Anniversary of John Keats Death by Sara Teasdale
The Grave of Keats by Oscar Wilde
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was an English poet. Born in London to a family of Catholics who were later expelled from the city during a period of religious persecution, Pope was largely self-educated, and struggled with numerous illnesses from a young age. At 23, he wrote the discursive poem An Essay on Criticism (1711), a manifesto on the art of poetry which gained him the admiration and acclaim of influential critics and writers of his day. His most famous poem, The Rape of the Lock (1712), is a mock epic which critiques aristocratic English society while showcasing Pope’s mastery of poetic form, particularly the use of the heroic couplet. Pope produced highly acclaimed translations of the Iliad and Odyssey, which transformed Homer’s ancient Greek dactylic hexameter into a contemporary rhyming English verse. His work The Dunciad (1728-1743), originally published anonymously in Dublin, is a satirical poem which lampoons English literary society and criticizes the moral and intellectual decay of British life. Second only to Shakespeare for the frequency with which he is quoted, Alexander Pope succumbed to his illnesses at the age of 56 while at the height of his fame and productivity.
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