The Poetry of October

Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti and 3 more

Narrated by Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

OCTOBER - The tenth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the land prepares to give up more it its colourful coverings. On this and other themes our poets including Wordsworth, Rossetti, Arnold, Bryant and Alford have much to say. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The tracks are; October - An Introduction; Song Of The Democratic Review Of It's Birthday, October 1st 1857 By William Ross Wallace; An Ode, Written October 1819 Before The Spaniards Had Recovered Their Liberty By Shelley; Anticipation, October 1803 By William Wordsworth; Embarcation (Southampton Docks, October 1899) By Thomas Hardy; Give Me October's Meditative Haze By Alfred Austin; Hymn For The Celebration At The Laying Of The Cornerstone Of Harvard Memorial Hall, Cambridge, October 6th 1870 By Oliver Wendell Holmes; An October Garden By Christina Georgina Rossetti; North Wind In October By Robert Seymour Bridges; October By George Arnold; On The Tenth Of October By Phillip Henry Savage; October By John Jay Chapman; Through October Fields by James Edwin Campbell; October On The Sheep Range By Arthur Chapman; The National Prayer, October 1840 By Henry Alford; October By John Payne; October By Paul Laurence Dunbar; On The Road To Waterloo, 17th October (En Vigilante, 2 Hours) By Dante Gabriel Rossetti; October By William Cullen Bryant; An October Sunset By Archibald Lampman; October 1915 By Dora Sigerson Shorter; October 21st 1905 By George Meredith; October Musings 1866 By Janet Hamilton; Lines Written October 23rd 1836, A Few Hours After The Birth Of My First Child By Henry Alford; Written At Lovere, October 1736 By Mary Wortley Montagu; On St Crispins Day, October 25th, 1763 By James Wilson Claudero; Octobers Bright Blue Weather By Helen Hunt Jackson; Last Week In October By Thomas Hardy; An October Evening By William Wilfred Campbell; from October - On Nearing Halloween By James Graham.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781780002095

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was an English Romantic poet. Born into a prominent political family, Shelley enjoyed a quiet and happy childhood in West Sussex, developing a passion for nature and literature at a young age. He struggled in school, however, and was known by his colleagues at Eton College and University College, Oxford as an outsider and eccentric who spent more time acquainting himself with radical politics and the occult than with the requirements of academia. During his time at Oxford, he began his literary career in earnest, publishing Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire (1810) and St. Irvine; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance (1811) In 1811, he married Harriet Westbrook, with whom he lived an itinerant lifestyle while pursuing affairs with other women. Through the poet Robert Southey, he fell under the influence of political philosopher William Godwin, whose daughter Mary soon fell in love with the precocious young poet. In the summer of 1814, Shelley eloped to France with Mary and her stepsister Claire Claremont, travelling to Holland, Germany, and Switzerland before returning to England in the fall. Desperately broke, Shelley struggled to provide for Mary through several pregnancies while balancing his financial obligations to Godwin, Harriet, and his own father. In 1816, Percy and Mary accepted an invitation to join Claremont and Lord Byron in Europe, spending a summer in Switzerland at a house on Lake Geneva. In 1818, following several years of unhappy life in England, the Shelleys—now married—moved to Italy, where Percy worked on The Masque of Anarchy (1819), Prometheus Unbound (1820), and Adonais (1821), now considered some of his most important works. In July of 1822, Shelley set sail on the Don Juan and was lost in a storm only hours later. His death at the age of 29 was met with despair and contempt throughout England and Europe, and he is now considered a leading poet and radical thinker of the Romantic era.