The Poetry Hour - Volume 14

Written by John Donne, William Shakespeare and Jane Austen

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner and Ghizela Rowe

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 John Donne and Jane Austen as well as themes on November, The Female Poet, Westminster Memorials 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 14 - An Introduction

John Donne – An Introduction

Death Be Not Proud by John Donne

The Good Morrow by John Donne

The Expiration by John Donne

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning by John Donne

Westminster Memorials – An Introduction

Longing by Matthew Arnold

London by William Blake

Heaven by Rupert Brooke

Apostasy by Charlotte Bronte

When We Two Parted by Lord Byron

He That is Down Needs Fear No Fall by John Bunyan

Turtle Soup by Lewis Carroll

A Thought For A Lonely Death Bed by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

November

November by Thomas hood

November by Amy Lowell

November by John Payne

A November Night by Sara Teasdale

At Day Close In November by Thomas Hardy

The Poetry of William Shakespeare - An Introduction

If Music Be the Food of Love, from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been (Sonnet 97) by William Shakespeare

Shall I Compare Thee to A Summers Day (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare

The Witches Spell by William Shakespeare

Full Fathom Five by William Shakespeare

No Longer Mourn For Me by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

The Female Poet – An Introduction. Volume 2

No Coward Soul is Mine by Emily Bronte

If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If Infinite Worlds, Infinite Centres by Margaret Cavendish

Isabella Valancy Crawford – We Parted in Silence

When My Love Did What I Would Not, What I Would Not by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

I’m Ceded – I’ve Stopped Being Theirs by Emily Dickenson

Ah, Silly Pug by Queen Elizabeth I

Sweet Evenings Come and Go Love by George Eliot

The Poets of 19th Century America. An Introduction – Volume 2

Heaven is What I Cannot Reach by Emily Dickinson

Knee Deep in June by James Whitcomb Riley <

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781839674624

John Donne

John Donne was born in 1572 and, a Roman Catholic in his youth, took Anglican Orders in 1615 and was Dean of St. Paul’s from 1621 until his death. His poetry, though forgotten for a long period, is the finest example of the so-called ‘metaphysical’ style, learned, allusive and witty. It is both highly physical and highly spiritual, with no distinction in method between the sacred and secular poems.