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ID: 348454

Title: Poetry of John Dryden

Author: John Dryden

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:05:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-18

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

John Dryden was born on August 9th, 1631 in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire and grew up in a nearby village. In 1644 he was sent to Westminster School as a King's Scholar and then obtained his BA in 1654, graduating top of the list for Trinity College, Cambridge that year. Returning to London during The Protectorate, Dryden found work with Cromwell's Secretary of State, John Thurloe. At Cromwell's funeral on November 23rd 1658 he found company with the Puritan poets John Milton and Andrew Marvell. The setting was to be a sea change in English history. From Republic to Monarchy and from one set of lauded poets to what would soon become the Age of Dryden. Later that year he published the first of his great poems, Heroic Stanzas (1658), a eulogy on Cromwell's death. With the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 Dryden celebrated in verse with Astraea Redux, an authentic royalist panegyric and with the re-opening of the theatres he began to also write plays. His first, The Wild Gallant, appeared in 1663 and whilst not successful, he was contracted to produce three plays a year for the King's Company, in which he became a shareholder. During the 1660s and '70s, theatrical writing was his main source of income. In 1667, he published Annus Mirabilis, a lengthy historical poem which described the English defeat of the Dutch naval fleet and the Great Fire of London. This work established him as the pre-eminent poet of his generation, and was crucial in his attaining the posts of Poet Laureate in 1668 and a couple of years later, historiographer royal (1670) as his talent encompassed many forms; from Poetry to Plays to translations.In 1694 he began work on what would be his most ambitious and defining work as translator, The Works of Virgil (1697), which was published by subscription. It was a national event. John Dryden died on May 12th, 1700, and was initially buried in St. Anne's cemetery in Soho, before being exhumed and reburied in Westminster Abbey ten days later. This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing. Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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ID: 361240

Title: Top 50 Poems

Author: John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:43:42

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-18

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Sometimes we just want the best. But that involves choices, judgements, decisions. And that all depends on our feelings, our mood at the time.Even more so with Poetry. Would we like a little more pathos, or love, or humour with that? Can we only choose one Keats? And If? Surely Kipling wrote something else?So difficult to decide. This one or that? Is it easier to choose your fifty favourite poets or your fifty favourite poems?The argument can go on forever, certainly a few days. However what we can all agree on is that poets have a way with words that almost all of us respect and admire and cant compete with. Who hasnt wanted to quote some favourite lines to make a better point?In this volume we made those choices, judgements and decisions for you. Some you will love. Maybe not today but tomorrow. Others may not initially be your cup of tea. But they will all make you think and bring you closer to something..Éor someone. This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing. Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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ID: 348465

Title: Poetry of Lord Byron

Author: Lord Byron

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:03:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-18

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, but more commonly known as just Byron was a leading English poet in the Romantic Movement along with Keats and Shelley.Byron was born on January 22nd, 1788. He was a great traveller across Europe, spending many years in Italy and much time in Greece. With his aristocratic indulgences, flamboyant style along with his debts, and a string of lovers he was the constant talk of society. In 1823 he joined the Greeks in their war of Independence against the Ottoman Empire, both helping to fund and advise on the wars conduct. It was an extraordinary adventure, even by his own standards. But, for us, it is his poetry for which he is mainly remembered even though it is difficult to see where he had time to write his works of immense beauty. But write them he did. He died on April 19th 1824 after having contracted a cold which, on the advice of his doctors, was treated with blood-letting. This cause complications and a violent fever set in. Byron died like his fellow romantics, tragically young and on some foreign field. This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing. Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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ID: 348463

Title: Poetry of Night - Volume 1

Author: Lord Byron, Radclyffe Hall, Thomas Hood

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:23:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-18

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Night. The day has gone. Departed. And the dark embrace, the inky shadows of night descend. For many a time to unwind and slumber. For some a nagging doubt that all is not well. That some primeval and primordial happening may yet go bump in the night.But for our poets the night is a time of wonder and imagination as well as many other emotions and feelings. Among our ranks of gloried talents are Keats, Coleridge, William Morris, DH Lawrence, Whitman, Longfellow and many more besides. Their descriptions capture what they see and feel as perhaps only a poet can.Among our ranks of gloried talents are Thomas Hood, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Clare, Herman Melville and many more besides. Their descriptions capture what they see and feel as perhaps only a poet can.This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing. Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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ID: 361236

Title: Poetry of Michael Drayton

Author: Michael Drayton

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:00:58

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-18

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Michael Drayton was born in 1563 at Hartshill, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. The facts of his early life remain unknown. Drayton first published, in 1590, a volume of spiritual poems; The Harmony of the Church. Ironically the Archbishop of Canterbury seized almost the entire edition and had it destroyed.In 1593 he published Idea: The Shepherd's Garland, 9 pastorals celebrating his own love-sorrows under the poetic name of Rowland. This was later expanded to a 64 sonnet cycle.With the publication of The Legend of Piers Gaveston, Matilda and Mortimeriados, later enlarged and re-published, in 1603, under the title of The Barons' Wars. His career began to gather interest and attention. In 1596, The Legend of Robert, Duke of Normandy, another historical poem was published, followed in 1597 by England's Heroical Epistles, a series of historical studies, in imitation of those of Ovid. Written in the heroic couplet, they contain some of his finest writing.Like other poets of his era, Drayton wrote for the theatre; but unlike Shakespeare, Jonson, or Samuel Daniel, he invested little of his art in the genre. Between 1597 and 1602, Drayton was a member of the stable of playwrights who worked for Philip Henslowe. Henslowe's Diary links Drayton's name with 23 plays from that period, and, for all but one unfinished work, in collaboration with others such as Thomas Dekker, Anthony Munday, and Henry Chettle. Only one play has survived; Part 1 of Sir John Oldcastle, which Drayton wrote with Munday, Robert Wilson, and Richard Hathwaye but little of Drayton can be seen in its pages.By this time, as a poet, Drayton was well received and admired at the Court of Elizabeth 1st. If he hoped to continue that admiration with the accession of James 1st he thought wrong. In 1603, he addressed a poem of compliment to James I, but it was ridiculed, and his services rudely rejected. In 1605 Drayton reprinted his most important works; the historical poems and the Idea. Also published was a fantastic satire called The Man in the Moon and, for the for the first time the famous Ballad of Agincourt.Since 1598 he had worked on Poly-Olbion, a work to celebrate all the points of topographical or antiquarian interest in Great Britain. Eighteen books in total, the first were published in 1614 and the last in 1622. In 1627 he published another of his miscellaneous volumes. In it Drayton printed The Battle of Agincourt (an historical poem but not to be confused with his ballad on the same subject), The Miseries of Queen Margaret, and the acclaimed Nimphidia, the Court of Faery, as well as several other important pieces.Drayton last published in 1630 with The Muses' Elizium. Michael Drayton died in London on December 23rd, 1631. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, in Poets' Corner. A monument was placed there with memorial lines attributed to Ben Jonson. This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing. Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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ID: 361231

Title: Lake Poets

Author: Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:51:13

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-18

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Strictly speaking The Lake Poets were not a movement or school of poetry they were only so named as such by The Edinburgh Review so that they could be disparaged.It was a spectacular backfire!The three main figures would be rightly seen as among the most monumental figures in English poetry - William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the under rated but immense Robert Southey, himself a thirty year poet laureate.The profound majesty of the Lake District, an area of almost unequalled beauty, of mythical landscapes and beguiling charm influenced and acted as muse to their burgeoning talents.Their creations have ennobled this poetry as an art form that is intense, lyrical, moving and above all deliciously satisfying.This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing. Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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ID: 361228

Title: Female Poets of the Nineteenth Century - Volume 1

Author: Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot

Narrator: Eve Karpf, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:45:06

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-18

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

For much of history women have been seen rather than heard. Their thoughts, their views have lain too long in the shadows of our culture. Whilst this traditional view has some merit it is not entirely accurate.Here, gathered together in these volumes, we can, through their words, experience their lives; we can hear their voices, their thoughts, joys, loves and losses.For the Female Poet there was always the confining hand of men to instruct that their time was perhaps spent more productively elsewhere. These lines, these gilded verses often protest otherwise.The contribution of women in these earlier centuries is immense and in this series we bring together poets who have created some of the most beautiful and expressive verses ever written. And remember these words, these telling lines, have been written against the grain of society's male bias. With their remembered words these female poets have given us a history that we can all now share.This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing. Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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ID: 348458

Title: Poetry of Edmund Spenser

Author: Edmund Spenser

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Jake Urry, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:08:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-18

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

One of the greatest of English poets, Edmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, London, in 1552 and went to school at Merchant Taylors' School and later at Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1579, he published The Shepheardes Calender, his first major work. Edmund journeyed to Ireland in July 1580, in the service of the newly appointed Lord Deputy, Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton. His time included the terrible massacre at the Siege of Smerwick. The epic poem, The Faerie Queene, is acknowledged as Edmunds masterpiece. The first three books were published in 1590, and a second set of three books were published in 1596. Indeed the reality is that Spenser, through his great talents, was able to move Poetry in a different direction. It led to him being called a Poets Poet and brought rich admiration from Milton, Raleigh, Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, and Tennyson, among others. Spenser returned to Ireland and in 1591, Complaints, a collection of poems that voices complaints in mournful or mocking tones was published. In 1595, Spenser published Amoretti and Epithalamion in a volume that contains eighty-nine sonnets. In the following year he wrote a prose pamphlet entitled A View of the Present State of Ireland, a highly inflammatory argument for the pacification and destruction of Irish culture.On January 13th 1599 Edmund Spenser died at the age of forty-six. His coffin was carried to his grave in Westminster Abbey by other poets, who threw pens and poetic pieces into his grave. This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing. Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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ID: 348455

Title: Poetry of Ben Jonson

Author: Ben Jonson

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:02:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-18

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Benjamin "Ben" Jonson was born in June, 1572. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays; Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, and his equally accomplished lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, including time in jail and a penchant for switching faiths, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets.In 1616 Jonson was appointed by King James I to receive a yearly pension of 60 to become what is now recognised as the post of the first official Poet Laureate. He died on the 6th of August, 1637 at Westminster and is buried in the north aisle of the nave at Westminster Abbey.A master of both playwriting and poetry his reputation continues to endure and reach a new audience with each succeeding generation. This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing. Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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ID: 342742

Title: Healing Justice: Stories of Wisdom and Love

Author: Jarem , Jarem Sawatsky

Narrator: Jim Cooper, Sawatsky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:13:26

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-18

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Buddhism, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

This is one of those books you wish everyone would read and keep and meditate on.Thomas Moore, NYT bestselling author

Wise, beautiful and invaluableTara Brach, bestselling author

2018 NAUTILUS AWARD WINNER

Has an unfair past yielded years of endless anguish? Discover ancient traditions that will teach you to live a brighter future.

Does your life seem rife with injustice? Have you ever noticed that sometimes seeking out justice only leads to more suffering? Are you searching for a less destructive path to fulfillment? Bestselling author Jarem Sawatsky has travelled the world to find a better way. After spending extensive time studying communities that practice healing justice, hes ready to share these joyful teachings with you.

Healing Justice: Stories of Wisdom and Lovecombines research, storytelling, and honest observations to challenge the outdated notion that justice requires trading an eye for an eye. Sawatsky immersed himself in communities in Canada, Scotland, and France that employ little-known practices to transform suffering into wellness. By sharing the teachings of the lotus, the eagle feather, and the Celtic knot, the author lights the path in your journey toward regaining your wholeness.

InHealing Justice, youll discover:

Practical steps to turn pain and suffering into positivity

The relationships necessary to support holistic inner healing

The alternatives to violence, vengeance, and shame when seeking justice

How to incline your life toward a healthier future

Observations from a Nobel Peace Prize nominated author, and much, much more!

Healing Justiceis an inspirational guide for adapting a painful past into a restorative future.

If you like the works of Anne Lamott, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Brené Brown, then youll love Jarem Sawatskys groundbreaking guide about returning to a life of joy.

BuyHealing Justiceto begin your journey toward peace today!

WHAT CRITICS SAY ABOUT HEALING JUSTICE

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Essential reading for this moment in history. -Senator Murray Sinclair, former Chair of the TRC of Canada

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Jarem shows us how we to can light a candle in what can sometimes feel like dark times.

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