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Title: The Poetry of Michael Drayton

Author: Michael Drayton

Narrator: Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 0 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2018

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's 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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Title: The Poetry of Radclyffe Hall

Author: Radclyffe Hall

Narrator: Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 59 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2018

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall was born on August 12th, 1880 to wealthy parents who separated while she was still an infant. Her parents thereafter paid little attention to her. Hall was educated privately, and then at KingÕs College London. Later she travelled to Europe, settling in Dresden, Germany. With the death of her paternal grandfather she inherited a large estate and was then able to live as she pleased.In Germany, Hall met Mabel Batten and fell in love despite the twenty-three year age difference. Batten gave Hall the nickname ÔJohnÕ by which she was henceforward known in every circumstance throughout her life except in her work as an author.In 1915, Hall met and, in 1917 moved in with sculptor Una Troubridge, with whom she would remain for the rest of her life.Hall wrote poetry all throughout her twenties and thirties. She had published Dedicated to Arthur Sullivan as early as 1894, and five further volumes of collected works were released before she stopped writing poetry and published her first novel, The Forge, in 1924.That same year also saw publication of The Unlit Lamp, the first work for which Hall was known as simply Radclyffe Hall.The Well of Loneliness, the most important novel of HallÕs career, was published in 1928 to immediate sensation and controversy. It is HallÕs most direct artistic expression of her own personal sexual orientation.After the controversy of The Well of Loneliness, Hall would publish only two more novels and a collection of short stories.After years spent travelling in Italy and France and a series of long lasting affairs with other women (of which Troubridge was apparently aware), Hall retired with Troubridge to Rye, in East Sussex. Here, suffering from tuberculosis, she also underwent eye surgery and thereafter had difficulty reading and writing.On October 7, 1943, Radclyffe Hall died from colon cancer at the age of sixty-three. She is buried in Highgate Cemetery in London.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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Title: The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker

Author: James Elroy Flecker

Narrator: Jake Urry, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2018

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

James Elroy Flecker was born on 5th November 1884, in Lewisham, London.Flecker does not seem to have enjoyed academic study and achieved only a Third-Class Honours in Greats in 1906. This did not set him up for a job in either government service or the academic world. After some frustrating forays at school teaching he attempted to join the Levant Consular Service and entered Cambridge to study for two years. After a poor first year he pushed forward in the second and achieved First-Class honours. His reward was a posting to Constantinople at the British consulate.However, FleckerÕs poetry career was making better progress and he was beginning to garner praise for his poems including The Bridge of Fire. Unfortunately, he was also showing the first symptoms of contracting tuberculosis. Bouts of ill health were to now alternate with periods of physical well-being woven with mental euphoria and creativity. Before his early death he managed to complete several volumes of poetry, which he continually revised, together with some prose works and plays. It was a small canon of work but on his death on 3rd January 1915, of tuberculosis, in Davos, Switzerland he was described as "unquestionably the greatest premature loss that English literature has suffered since the death of Keats". 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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Title: The Poetry of John Clare

Author: John Clare

Narrator: Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2018

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

John Clare was born on 13th July, 1793 in Helpston, a few miles north of Peterborough.Schooled only until the age of 12 his early career was that of agricultural labourer, pot boy, gardener and lime burner. His early life of hardship and frequent malnutrition led to his diminutive stature of five feet and contributed to his later health problems.In 1820 his first poems were published and began to earn him a reputation as the ÒNorthamptonshire Peasant PoetÓ.His poetry sold well but only occasionally did that and other incomes keep his head above water. Married with seven children the burden was huge and demanding. Frequently penniless his health began to dissolve.He last published in 1835 and by 1837 with his drinking out of control and his mental state shredded he entered a mental institution. He was to reside in such unhappy places until his death.He died aged 71 on 20th May 1864. His remains were returned to Helpston for burial in St BotolphÕs churchyard.Today he is considered one of the greatest of English poets. His lyrical works on nature and the countryside earn him this just praise.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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Title: The Poetry of John Donne

Author: John Donne

Narrator: Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 59 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2018

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

John Donne was born on 22nd January 1572 in London into a Roman Catholic family when Catholicism was illegal in England and there was turbulence and unrest with both state and church throughout much of Europe. His father, also named John, died when he was 4 and his mother, Elizabeth Heywood married a wealthy widower, ensuring the family were looked after. He received a good education in both Oxford and Cambridge but was unable to obtain a degree without taking the Oath of Supremacy, which as a Catholic, he refused to do.During the 1590's Donne wrote a wide range of verse including both erotic and sacred poems, creating two major volumes of work. His strong, vivacious and sensual style fusing intellect and passion as well as inventive use of subtle argument and syntax provided a new radical perspective that reached beyond his contemporaries and continues to chime and charm poetry lovers throughout the ages.Difficult to believe that with this enormous talent, Donne, lived in poverty for many years, exacerbated by his secret marriage to Ann More, which meant no dowry, and their having twelve children. Later he served in Parliament and became Dean of St Pauls in 1621, noted for his learned and charismatic sermons.John Donne died in London on 31st March, 1631 but leaves an enormous legacy of many splendid and influential poems. He was known as the founder of the Metaphysical Poets and is widely regarded as one of Britain's best loved poets.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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Title: The Poetry of Isaac Rosenberg

Author: Isaac Rosenberg

Narrator: Jake Urry, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2018

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Isaac Rosenberg was born on 25th November 1890 in Bristol. As a child his family moved to the squalid streets of LondonÕs Jewish Ghetto, and took any number of menial jobs to survive.Isaac only attended school briefly at age 14. He began work as an engraverÕs apprentice and to work in his spare time on his painting. These talents in painting and other visual arts allowed him to go to a funded place at the Slade School of Art.His early poetry was closely associated with the Romantic movement, especially the influences of Keats and Shelley.His volume of poems ÔYouthÕ was published in 1915 and then he enlisted to fight in the Great War.He fought until 1918 and his death in the battle of Arras on 1st April at the age of 28.Within those few short years he found his own distinctive and clear voice. He is mainly remembered as a War Poet and on the horrific canvas that was to be The First World War he expressed himself as few others could. ÔAugust 1914Õ like many of his works is short but distilled to an essence with a clear and unquenchable voice.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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Title: The Female Poets of the Seventeeth Century - Volume 1

Author: Anne Kingsmill Finch, Aphra Behn, Anne Bradstreet

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2018

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's 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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Title: The Lake Poets

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth

Narrator: Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2018

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's 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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Title: The Female Poets of the Eighteenth Century - Volume 1

Author: Hannah Moore, Ann Griffiths, Charlotte Smith

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Stella Gonet, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2018

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's 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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Title: The Female Poets of the Nineteenth Century - Volume 1

Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley, Eve Karpf

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2018

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's 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.