Alexander Pope, GK Chesterton, Abraham Cowley Poetry Hour - Volume 17

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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 Ben Jonson and Jalalludin Rumi as well as themes on The Female Poet, Hell, Victorian Poetry 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 1Alexander Pope - An IntroductionSummer by Alexander PopeSolitude by Alexander PopeThe Dunicad. An Extract of Book I by Alexander PopeJanuarySonnet LIX. Written at Ampton, Suffolk. January 1838 by Henry AlfordAt the Entering of the New Year by Thomas HardyThe First Snowfall by James Russell LowellIt is Winter by Daniel SheehanPray, to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David ThoreauJanuary 1795 by Mary Darby RobinsonThe Cavalier Poets - An IntroductionThe Given Heart by Abraham CowleyGo Lovely Rose by Edmund WallerEpigram LXV - To My Muse by Ben JonsonDefinition of Love by Andrew MarvellLove's End by Lord Edward Herbert of CherburyLove Conquer'd by Richard LovelaceTo Sappho by Robert HerrickLips & Eyes by Thomas CarewI Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John SucklingThe Poetry of GK Chesterton - An IntroductionThe Englishman by GK ChestertonThe Rolling English Road by GK ChestertonThe Convert by GK ChestertonThe Last Hero by GK ChestertonAmericanisation by GK ChestertonWho Goes Home by GK ChestertonThe Poetry of Night - An IntroductionProlong the Night by Renee VivienI Weary Tonight, I Weary by Alexander AndersonSonnet LXVI - The Night Flood Rakes by Charlotte SmithA Prayer in Darkness by GK ChestertonThe Night by Alfred LichtensteinFrom The City of Dreadful Night by James ThomsonIn Drear Nighted December by John KeatsThe Slave's Singing at Midnight by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowSleep on Thine Eyes by HafizJohn Keats - A Tribute in VerseJohn Keats by Dante Gabriel RossettiThe Poetry of Keats by George MeredithFor the Anniversary of John Keats Death by Sara TeasdaleThe Grave of Keats by Oscar Wilde