{"product_id":"born-in-england-exploring-english-poetry-the-west-midlands-audiobook-copy","title":"Born in England – Exploring English Poetry - The South-West (Audiobook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA celebration of English poems\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead by Richard Mitchley, Jo Wyatt, Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 2hrs 42mins)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, Thomas Hardy \u0026amp; many more\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePoetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eEach poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThrough the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn the volumes of this series, we take a look at poetry through the prism of individual regions of England, or sometimes more quaintly known as ‘Albion’, or ‘Blighty’, through the centuries of its gloried history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eEngland, despite its perception of reserve and under-statement has, in reality, strode the global stage at various time in many things, both good and bad, from Empire to long distance running. Here our focus in on its literature.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eFamed for its fiction and dramas, it is equally admired for its plethora of gifted poets and the dazzling verse which has added so much to its artistic legacy.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThese classic poets are wonders of their age and of their art.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eGenius is written in their names.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn this volume we have collected verse from poets born in the East of England.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThese flat lowlands face out towards Europe yet within their counties are centuries of poetical history that indelibly mark out their talents as among our very best.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn this compilation - \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1 - Born in England - Exploring English Poetry - The South-West - An Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e2 - A Song - Men of England by Percy Shelley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e3 - Ode to Liberty by Percy Bysshe Shelley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e4 - A Summer Evening Churchyard by Percy Bysshe Shelley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e5 - Frost At Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e6 - Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e7 - Fancy in Nubibus or The Poet in the Clouds\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eby Samuel Taylor Coleridge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e8 - Sonnet VII - To the Evening Rainbow by Robert Southey\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e9 - My Days Among the Dead Are Past by Robert Southey\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e10 - Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e11 - Rain on a Grave by Thomas Hardy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e12 - In Vision I Roamed by Thomas Hardy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e13 - To Flowers from Italy by Thomas Hardy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e14 - The Death of Nicou. An African Eclogue by Thomas Chatterton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e15 - Bristol by Thomas Chatterton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e16 - Apostate Will by Thomas Chatterton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e17 - Dead Man's Dump by Isaac Rosenberg\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e18 - Daughters of War by Isaac Rosenberg\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e19 - Strange Hells by Ivor Gurney\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e20 - Poem for the End by Ivor Gurney\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e21 - The National Prayer, October 1840 by Henry Alford\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e22 - Sonnet XLIII. The Malvern Hills, March 12th 1835 by Henry Alford\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e23 - Life by Sir Walter Raleigh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e24 - My Last Will by Sir Walter Raleigh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e25 - Beauty, Time and Love by Samuel Daniel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e26 - Sonnet II - Go Wailing Verse by Samuel Daniel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e27 - The World's Age by Charles Kingsley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e28 - 21st September 1870 by Charles Kingsley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e29 - The Rao of Ilore by Laurence Hope aka Violet Nicholson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e30 - The Bride by Laurence Hope aka Violet Nicholson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e31 - Wishes To His Supposed Mistress by Sidney Godolphin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e32 - No More Unto My Thoughts Appear\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eby Sidney Godolphin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e33 - The Spacious Firmament by Joseph Addison\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e34 - Hope by Joseph Addison\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e35 - The Clock Striking Midnight by Thomas Lovell Beddoes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e36 - The Last Man by Thomas Lovell Beddoes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e37 - In Memoriam by Ewart Alan Mackintosh (Killed in Action 21st November 1917, Aged 24)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e38 - To My Sister by Ewart Alan Mackintosh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e39 - Back To Rest by Lieutenant William Noel Hodgson MC\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e40 - Before Action by Lieutenant William Noel Hodgson MC\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e41 - In A Soldier's Hospital. II - Gramaphone Tunes by Eva Dobell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e42 - Advent, 1916 by Eva Dobell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e43 - Morning by John Keble\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e44 - November by John Keble\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e45 - The Idlers Calender - April - Trout Fishing by William Scawen Blunt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e46 - The Idlers Calendar. Twelve Sonnets for the Year - December by Wilfred Scawen Blunt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e47 - Morning by Mary Darby Robinson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e48 - Life by Mary Darby Robinson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e49 - Taste by John Davies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e50 - A Lover Out of Fashion by Sir John Davies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e51 - To the Ladies by Lady Mary Chudleigh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e52 - The Wish by Lady Mary Chudleigh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e53 - No Platonic Love by William Cartwright\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e54 - Falsehood by William Cartwright\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e55 - To Susanna, February 1824 by Eliza Acton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e56 - On the Death of Major Whitefoord, December 15th 1825 by Eliza Acton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e57 - Ingratitude by Sir John Harrington\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e58 - Beauty by Sir John Harrington\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e59 - Let Mammon's Sons with Visage Lean by Mary Botham Howitt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e60 - The Unregarded Toils of the Poor by Mary Botham Howitt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e61 - The Mirror For Magistrates - The Induction by Thomas Sackville\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e62 - A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem by Charles Sackville, Earl Of Dorset\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e63 - Shall We Not Love Thee Mother Dear by Henry Williams Baker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e64 - Mother \u0026amp; Daughter (Extract) by Augusta Weber\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e65 - On the Works of Creation by Elizabeth Singer Rowe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e66 - The Great Panjandrum by Samuel Foote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e67 - Going Down Hill on a Bicycle, a Boy's Song by Henry Charles Beeching\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e68 - A Quiet Soul by John Oldham\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e69 - The Woman's Labour An Epistle to Mr Stephen Duck (Extract) by Mary Collier\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e70 - Slavery by John Bowring\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e71 - The Slave Trade. 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