The Poetry of July

Written by William Shakespeare, John Keats, Alexander Pope and 2 more

Narrated by Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

JULY - the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar and Summer is a rich harvest of colours and sights. Poets of the calibre of Shakespeare, Keats, Pope, Whitman and Tennyson describe and marshall their thoughts for our delight. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The tracks are; July - An Introduction; July 2nd 1863 By Tom Reynolds; America, From The National Ode July 4th 1876 By James Bayard Taylor; 4th July 1882, Malines, Midnight By James Kenneth Stephen; Fourth Of July By Julia A Moore; July 4th 1857 By Alfred Gibbs Campbell; Ode For July 4th 1917 By HP Lovecraft; Ode For The 4th Of July By James Monroe Whitfield; Sonnet LVII - Summit Of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838 By Henry Alford; July 9th 1872 By Abram Joseph Ryan; London In July By Amy Levy; St Martins Summer By Robert Louis Stevenson; Summer By Alexander Pope; L' Envoi (An Extract) By Rudyard Kipling; Broadway, New York, July 1916 By George Sterling; In This Summer By Daniel Sheehan; A July Afternoon By The Pond By Walt Whitman; On The Grasshopper And Cricket By John Keats; Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day (Sonnet 18) By William Shakespeare; On My Sons Return Out Of England July 17th 1661 By Anne Bradstreet; Sonnet July 18th 1787 By William Lisle Bowles; Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House July 18th 1666 By Anne Bradstreet; Sonnet At Dover Cliffs July 20th 1787 By William Lisle Bowles; Summer Sun By Robert Louis Stevenson; Sonnet At Ostend July 22nd 1787 By William Lisle Bowles; Between The Dusk Of Summer By William Ernest Henley; Summer Night By Alfred Lord Tennyson; The School Boy By William Blake; Answer July By Emily Dickinson; Written In July By Samuel Rogers; From My Diary July 1914 By Wilfred Owen.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781780002064

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.