The Poetry Hour - Volume 16

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 Milton as well as themes on The Female Poet, February, Graveyard Poets 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 16

John Milton. An Introduction

Paradise Regained. An Extract from the First Book by John Milton

Sonnet XIX by John Milton

The Passion by John Milton

The Graveyard Poets – An Introduction

A Night Piece On Death by Thomas Parnell

Invocation to Horror by Hannah Cowley

Ode XIV – To Solitude by Joseph Warton

February

Lines On Observing A Blossom on the First of February 1796 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Hymn Written Sunday February 11th, 1798 by Robert Anderson

A Valentines Song by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Kiss by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Winter’s Naked Wood by Daniel Sheehan

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

February by Louisa Sarah Bevington

The Poetry of John Clare - An Introduction

The Peasant Poet by John Clare

The Vanities of Life by John Clare

A World For Love by John Clare

The Female Poet – An Introduction. Volume 4

Very Early Spring by Katherine Mansfield

Sea Love by Charlotte Mary Mew

Summer in England, 1914 by Alice Meynell

Sonnet by Alice Dunbar Nelson

Against Love by Katherine Phillips

Hop Picking by Edith Nesbit

Life by Mary Darby Robinson

After Death by Fanny Parnell