The Poetry Hour - Volume 13

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 13 - An IntroductionBen Jonson - An IntroductionA Celebration of Charis – IV – Her Triumph by Ben JonsonEpigram LXV – To My Muse by Ben Jonson The Masque of Christmas by Ben JonsonTo the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare and What He Hath Left Us by Ben JonsonThe Poetry of Hell – An IntroductionInferno by Dante. Canto 3.An Introduction to Jaluluddin RumiThe Oilman and his Parrot by RumiThe Jealously of God by RumiThe Flame of Love by RumiThe Female Poet – An Introduction - Volume 1Nearer My God To Thee by Sarah Flower Adams The Willing Mistress by Aphra Behn Winter by Anne Bradstreet Fluctuations by Anne Bronte Pleasure by Charlotte Bronte Victorian Poetry - An IntroductionA Farewell to Youth by Alfred Austin How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Rolling English Road by GK Chesterton Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll Among the Rocks by Robert Browning The Wheel by William Butler Yeats Idlers Calendar – Twelve Sonnets for the months – June by Wilfred Scawen Blunt January Sonnet 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 by Alice Cary