A Rhyme A Dozen ― Fathers: 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic

Written by William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Anne Bradstreet

Narrated by Ghizela Rowe

‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.

1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Fathers - An Introduction

2 - Anecdote for Fathers by William Wordsworth

3 - Any Father to Any Son by F B Money-Coutts

4 - Come Home Father by Henry Clay Work

5 - To Her Father with Some Verses by Anne Bradstreet

6 - Our Fathers Also by Rudyard Kipling

7 - Portrait of My Father as a Young Man by Rainer Maria Rilke

8 - The Sins of the Fathers by Stephen Crane

9 - To My Father on His Birthday by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

10 - The Father by Katharine Tynan

11 - Sonnet 37 - As a Decrepit Father Takes Delight by William Shakespeare

12 - A Poet's Father by Ambrose Bierce

13 - Epitaph on My Ever Honoured Father by Robert Burns

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Nov 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781803545875

William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 at Cockermouth, in the English Lake District, the son of a lawyer. He was one of five children and developed a close bond with his only sister, Dorothy, whom he lived with for most of his life. At the age of seventeen, shortly after the deaths of his parents, Wordsworth went to St John’s College, Cambridge, and after graduating visited Revolutionary France. Upon returning to England he published his first poem and devoted himself wholly to writing. He became great friends with other Romantic poets and collaborated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads. In 1843, he succeeded Robert Southey as Poet Laureate and died in the year ‘Prelude’ was finally published, 1850.