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 Alexander Pope as well as themes on January, Cavalier Poets, Night 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 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
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