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 Robert Herrick and Herman Melville as well as themes on Westminster Memorials, December 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 19
Robert Herrick. An Introduction
An Hymn to the Muses by Robert Herrick
His Farewell to Sack by Robert Herrick
His Return To London by Robert Herrick
To Electra by Robert Herrick
To Find God by Robert Herrick
The Lake Poets. An Introduction
Frost At Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey
I Travell’d Amongst Unknown Men by William Wordsworth
It Was An April Morning Fresh And Clear by William Wordsworth
December
Come, Come Thou Bleak December Wind (Fragment 3) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Winter Stores by Charlotte Bronte
The Death of the Old Year by Alfred Lord Tennyson
December 27th 1879 by George MacDonald
Herman Melville. An Introduction
John Marr & Other Sailors by Herman Melville
Father Mapples Hymn (from Moby Dick) by Herman Melville
Gettysburg by Herman Melville
The Berg, A Dream by Herman Melville
Dupont’s Round Fight, November 1851 by Herman Melville
Aurora Borealis by Herman Melville
Shelley’s Vision by Herman Melville
The March into Virginia by Herman Melville
Westminster Memorials – An Introduction
First Love by John Clare
To an Infant by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Village by Oliver Goldsmith
His Meditation Upon Death by Robert Herrick
Virtue by George Herbert
When I Have Fears by John Keats
William Shakespeare – A Tribute in Verse
On Shakespeare by John Milton
Shakespeare by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Spirit of Shakespeare by George Meredith
Shakespeare by Matthew Arnold
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