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About The Poetry Hour - Volume 17

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 Alexander Pope as well as themes on January, Cavalier Poets, Night 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 17 Alexander Pope – An Introduction Summer by Alexander Pope Solitude by Alexander Pope The Dunicad. An Extract of Book I by Alexander Pope January Sonnet LIX. Written at Ampton, Suffolk. January 1838 by Henry Alford At the Entering of the New Year by Thomas Hardy The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell It is Winter by Daniel Sheehan Pray, to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David Thoreau January 1795 by Mary Darby Robinson The Cavalier Poets – An Introduction The Given Heart by Abraham Cowley Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller Epigram LXV – To My Muse by Ben Jonson Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell Love’s End by Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury Love Conquer’d by Richard Lovelace To Sappho by Robert Herrick Lips & Eyes by Thomas Carew I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling The Poetry of GK Chesterton - An Introduction The Englishman by GK Chesterton The Rolling English Road by GK Chesterton The Convert by GK Chesterton The Last Hero by GK Chesterton Americanisation by GK Chesterton Who Goes Home by GK Chesterton The Poetry of Night - An Introduction Prolong the Night by Renee Vivien I Weary Tonight, I Weary by Alexander Anderson Sonnet LXVI – The Night Flood Rakes by Charlotte Smith A Prayer in Darkness by GK Chesterton The Night by Alfred Lichtenstein From The City of Dreadful Night by James Thomson In Drear Nighted December by John Keats The Slave’s Singing at Midnight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sleep on Thine Eyes by Hafiz John Keats – A Tribute in Verse John Keats by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Poetry of Keats by George Meredith For the Anniversary of John Keats Death by Sara Teasdale The Grave of Keats by Oscar Wilde