The Poetry Hour - Volume 18

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 Edmund Spenser and Dante Gabriel Rossetti as well as themes on The Female Poet, The Wind & Rain, Evenings 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 18Edmund Spenser – An IntroductionSonnet – One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand by Edmund SpenserShepherd’s Calendar. IV – April by Edmund SpenserThe Poetry of EveningsThe Evening Darkens Over by Robert Seymour BridgesSweet Evenings Come and Go Love by George EliotA Twilight in Middle March by Francis LedwidgeA Summer Evening Courtyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershireby by Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Red Sunsets by Mathilde BlindMadonna of the Evening Flowers by Amy LowellSunset by HP LovecraftHow the Old Mountains Drip with Sunset by Emily DickinsonThe Female Poet. An Introduction – Volume 5Winter, My Secret by Christina Georgina Rossetti Sonnet LXXI by Charlotte Smith Indian Summer by Sara Teasdale The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Katharine Tynan On Virtue by Phillis Wheatley A World Worth Living In by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Sonnet XIV by Mary Wroth Dante Gabriel Rossetti - An IntroductionOn Refusal of Aid Between Nations by Dante Gabriel RossettiSacrament Hymn by Dante Gabriel RossettiThe Kiss by Dante Gabriel RossettiTroy Town by Dante Gabriel RossettiWillow Wood - Sonnet II by Dante Gabriel RossettiWillow Wood – Sonnet IV by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Poetry of Wind and Rain - An IntroductionSudden Shower by John Clare There Came A Wind Like a Bugle by Emily DickinsonThe Rainy Day by Rabindranath TagoreThe Storm by George HerbertRainy Night by Alfred LichtensteinVictorian Poetry – An IntroductionThe Eagle by Alfred Lord TennysonA Match by Algernon Swinburne Maternity by Alice Meynell Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rossetti The Toys by Coventry PatmoreThe Message of the March Wind by William Morris Vita Lampada by Henry Newbolt