Fifty Shades of November: 50 of the best poems about the month of November

Written by A E Housman, Trumbell Stickney, Ewart Alan Mackintosh and 7 more

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe and Laurel Lefkow

The eleventh month of the Gregorian year brings the change from Autumn into Winter. Landscapes are scrubbed of colour and all their frills, the statued forms of trees are the grammar, the structure of her ways. Days shorten, nights lengthen and for our classic poets there is work to be done.

Across fifty poems our classic poets including Matthew Arnold, Thomas Hardy, Herman Melville, Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Alice Guerin Crist illuminate the month, the natural world and the human condition. In their words our experiences are reshaped, our views are rethought and our place in the world made a little more sense of.

1 - Fifty Shades of November - An Introduction

2 - November by John Clare

3 - November Findings, November 1862 by Janet Hamilton

4 - November by William Cullen Bryant

5 - To a Mouse by Robert Burns

6 - To a Robin in November by William Wilfred Campbell

7 - The TWA Corbies by Anonymous

8 - Bird's Nests by Edward Thomas

9 - We Plough the Fields and Scatter by Mattias Claudius

10 - A Hymn on the Seasons (An Extract) by James Thomson

11 - A Shropshire Lad XXVII - Is My Team Ploughing by A E Housman

12 - At Day Close in November by Thomas Hardy

13 - A November Night by Sara Teasdale

14 - In November by Archibald Lampman

15 - Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rossetti

16 - Autumn Song by Katherine Mansfield

17 - November Song by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

18 - Love in Autumn by Sara Teasdale

19 - The Wind's Lament by John Morris-Jones

20 - By the Hearth by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

21 - A Calender of Sonnets - November by Helen Hunt Jackson

22 - November Blind by Phillip Henry Savage

23 - In This Fog by Daniel Sheehan

24 - November by Thomas Hood

25 - Among the Rocks by Robert Browning

26 - November by John Payne

27 - Mild the Mist Upon the Hill by Emily Bronte

28 - The Storm by George Herbert

29 - Pray To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David Thoreau

30 - November by Amy Lowell

31 - Frost At Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

32 - Dupont's Round Fight (November 1861) by Herman Melville

33 - A Thanksgiving Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar

34 - In November by Phillip Henry Savage

35 - November Days in Ireland by Alice Guerin Crist

36 - November 1806 by William Wordsworth

37 - A Shropshire Lad XXXVIII - The Winds Out of the West Land Blow by A E Housman

38 - November 1847 by Henry Alford

39 - Sonnet 73 - That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold by William Shakespeare

40 - The Going of the Battery (Wives Lament November the 2nd 1899) by Thomas Hardy

41 - The Melancholy Year is Dead with Rain by Trumbell Stickney

42 - A November Note by Alfred Austin

43 - November by Lucy Hamilton Hooper

44 - November 1813 by William Wordsworth

45 - A Thought on Death, November 1814 by Anna Laetitia Barbauld

46 - On the Death of Princess Borghese, at Rome, November 1840 by Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton

47 - Paris. November the 11th, 1918 by Mary Wedderburn Cannan

48 - In Memoriam by Ewart Alan Mackintosh (Killed in Action 21st November 1917, Aged 24)

49 - November by John Keble

50 - For the Fallen by Lawrence Binyon

51 - Rugby Chapel, November 1857 by Matthew Arnold

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781803540641