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    The Poetry Hour - Volume 18
    The Poetry Hour - Volume 18
    The Poetry Hour - Volume 18
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    The Poetry Hour - Volume 18

    Written by Edmund Spenser, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Alfred Lord Tennyson

    Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner and Ghizela Rowe

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    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 Edmund Spenser and Dante Gabriel Rossetti as well as themes on The Female Poet, The Wind & Rain, Evenings 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 18

    Edmund Spenser – An Introduction

    Sonnet – One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand by Edmund Spenser

    Shepherd’s Calendar. IV – April by Edmund Spenser

    The Poetry of Evenings

    The Evening Darkens Over by Robert Seymour Bridges

    Sweet Evenings Come and Go Love by George Eliot

    A Twilight in Middle March by Francis Ledwidge

    A Summer Evening Courtyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershireby by Percy Bysshe Shelley

    The Red Sunsets by Mathilde Blind

    Madonna of the Evening Flowers by Amy Lowell

    Sunset by HP Lovecraft

    How the Old Mountains Drip with Sunset by Emily Dickinson

    The Female Poet. An Introduction – Volume 5

    Winter, My Secret by Christina Georgina Rossetti

    Sonnet LXXI by Charlotte Smith

    Indian Summer by Sara Teasdale

    The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Katharine Tynan

    On Virtue by Phillis Wheatley

    A World Worth Living In by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

    Sonnet XIV by Mary Wroth

    Dante Gabriel Rossetti - An Introduction

    On Refusal of Aid Between Nations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

    Sacrament Hymn by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

    The Kiss by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

    Troy Town by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

    Willow Wood - Sonnet II by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

    Willow Wood – Sonnet IV by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

    The Poetry of Wind and Rain - An Introduction

    Sudden Shower by John Clare

    There Came A Wind Like a Bugle by Emily Dickinson

    The Rainy Day by Rabindranath Tagore

    The Storm by George Herbert

    Rainy Night by Alfred Lichtenstein

    Victorian Poetry – An Introduction

    The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson

    A Match by Algernon Swinburne

    Maternity by Alice Meynell

    Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rossetti

    The Toys by Coventry Patmore

    The Message of the March Wind by William Morris

    Vita Lampada by Henry Newbolt

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Copyright Group
    Release dateJan 1, 2020
    ISBN9781839674662
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    Edmund Spenser

    Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599) was an English poet considered to be one of the greatest poets in the English language. While Spenser would published more than a dozen works in his lifetime he is best known for his epic poem, The Faerie Queene. Dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, the book is both one of the longest poems and most influential in the English language.

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