The Poetry Of Travel

By Charlotte Smith, James Thomson and Robert Louis Stevenson

Amidst all our dreams and ambitions from cradle to grave is the wanderlust of travel. To see the world, to experience different cultures and new lands. In the modern day a few hours on a plane will take us to an entirely different environment whereas a hundred years ago or more any form of transport would have been far slower paced but getting there was also part of the adventure, the gradual transition from what is known to what is about to be known. This collection of poems takes us across a wide variety of travels and environments both real and in the mind. They summon up descriptions and feelings that are sometimes totally unexpected. Of course when the authors include Wordsworth, Stevenson, Keats and others perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised but allow ourselves to be indulged by their ability. Many of these titles are on our audiobook version which can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Copyright Group
• Release date: Sep 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781780005324

Charlotte Smith

Charlotte Smith is Curator of The Darnell Collection. She was born in Hong Kong to an English mother and an American father. She grew up with her brother and sister on the east coast of America and graduated with a degree in Art History from Hollins College in Virginia. Charlotte has worked for art dealers, ran her own business manufacturing decorative lampshades and was the proprietor of a French country antiques shop. Her interests include horse riding, interior decorating, writing and gardening. She has lived and worked in America, England, France and and now resides in Australia, in the Blue Mountains with her daughter.  Charlotte's fascination with fashion began with a special vintage dress at the age of three. Since inheriting her godmother's vast vintage clothing collection, her passion for fashion has grown to include the history of fashion and its significant impact on society. Charlotte is involved with exhibitions of her collection around the country, gives lectures and talks, works with fashion and design students and is featured on television and radio.    Grant Cowan has worked as an illustrator on magazines like Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour and Red magazine. He studied fashion design and lived in London before moving to Australia to teach fashion illustration. Grant is a freelance fashion illustrator and works  with fashion schools in Sydney.

Book preview

The Poetry Of Travel

Poetry is a fascinating use of language.  With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries.  In this volume we explore travel through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets to bring you a unique poetic guide.  

Amidst all our dreams and ambitions from cradle to grave is the wanderlust of travel.  To see the world, to experience different cultures and new lands. 

In the modern day a few hours on a plane will take us to an entirely different environment whereas a hundred years ago or more any form of transport would have been far slower paced but getting there was also part of the adventure, the gradual transition from what is known to what is about to be known.

This collection of poems takes us across a wide variety of travels and environments both real and in the mind.  They summon up descriptions and feelings that are sometimes totally unexpected.  Of course when the authors include William Wordsworth, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Keats, Amy Levy, Walt Whitman, Daniel Sheehan  and others perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised but allow ourselves to be indulged by their ability.

Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry.  Many samples are at our youtube channel   http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee   The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.  Among our readers are Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

Index Of Poems

A Statesman's Holiday by William Butler Yeats

Beachy Head by Charlotte Smith 

Constantinople by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Ballade Of An Omnibus  by Amy Levy

In The Train By James Thomson

In This Journey By Daniel Sheehan

Foreign Lands (From Child's Garden of Verses) By Robert Louis Stevenson 

The Land of Nod (From Child's Garden of Verses) By Robert Louis Stevenson

Looking-Glass River (From Child's Garden of Verses) By Robert Louis Stevenson 

From A Railway Carriage (From Child's Garden of Verses) By Robert Louis Stevenson 

My Ship and I (From Child's Garden of Verses) By Robert Louis Stevenson 

Travel (From Child's Garden Of Verses) By Robert Louis Stevenson 

Where Go the Boats? (From Child's Garden of Verses) By Robert Louis Stevenson 

Ozymandias By Shelley

Beautiful City By Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Isles Of Greece By Lord Byron

Sonnet To Lake Leman By Lord Byron

On Seeing The Elgin Marbles For The First Time By John Keats

On The Sea By John Keats

To One Who Has Been Long In City Pent By John Keats

To The Nile By John Keats

And Your Feet Are The Author, Your Eyes Every Page By Daniel Sheehan

This Black Ribbon Freeway By Daniel Sheehan

In The Belly Of This Metal Beast By Daniel Sheehan

Sailing to Byzantium By WB Yeats

Cities And Thrones And Powers By Rudyard Kipling

The Ancient Arteries Of America By Daniel Sheehan

By My Two Feet And Endless Times By Daniel Sheehan

Rhyme Of The Rail By John Godfrey Saxe

To A Locomotive In Winter By Walt Whitman

A Song Of The Road By Robert Louis Stevenson

Cruisers By Rudyard Kipling

Stanzas From The Grande Chartreuse By Matthew Arnold

To The City Of Bombay By Rudyard Kipling

To Princess Kaiulani By Robert Louis Stevenson

I Travell'd Among Unknown Men By William Wordsworth

Mandalay By Rudyard Kipling

In Amsterdam By Eugene Field

Admonition To A Traveller By William Wordsworth

Going Down Hill On A Bicycle, A Boy's Song By Henry Charles Beeching

The Canoe Speaks By Robert Louis Stevenson

Fair Isle At Sea By Robert louis Stevenson

Song Of The Open Road By Walt Whitman

Tinturn Abbey (Extracts) By William Wordsworth

France An Ode By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

England & Switzerland By William Wordsworth

A Statesman's Holiday by William Butler Yeats

I lived among great houses,

Riches drove out rank,

Base drove out the better blood,

And mind and body shrank.

No Oscar ruled the table,

But I'd a troop of friends

That knowing better talk had gone

Talked of odds and ends.

Some knew what ailed the world

But never said a thing,

So I have picked a better trade

And night and morning sing:

Tall dames go walking in grass-green Avalon.

Am I a great Lord Chancellor

That slept upon the Sack?

Commanding officer that tore

The khaki from his back?

Or am I de Valera,

Or the King of Greece,

Or the man that made the motors?

Ach, call me what you