{"product_id":"born-in-england-exploring-english-poetry-cambridge-university-audiobook","title":"Born in England – Exploring English Poetry - Cambridge University (Audiobook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA celebration of English poems\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead by Richard Mitchley, Sean Barrett, Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 3hrs 17mins)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing poems by Christopher Marlowe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Milton, John Dryden, Alfred Lord Tennyson \u0026amp; many more.\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 - Cambridge University - An Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e2 - The Longest Day by William Wordsworth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e3 - Ode to Duty by William Wordsworth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e4 - Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e5 - London After The Great Fire 1666 by John Dryden\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e6 - Happy the Man by John Dryden\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e7 - Farewell Ungrateful Traitor by John Dryden\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e8 - Amoretti XXXVI - Tell Me, When Shall These Wearie Woes Have End by Edmund Spenser\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e9 - My Love is Like to Ice by Edmund Spenser\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e10 - The Shepheardes Calendar IV - April by Edmund Spenser\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e11 - Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e12 - All Things Will Die by Alfred Lord Tennyson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e13 - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal from The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e14 - Remember Thee! Remember Thee! by Lord Byron\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e15 - Lines Written Beneath An Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow On The Hill Sept 2nd 1807 by George Gordon Byron\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e16 - When We Two Parted by Lord Byron\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e17 - Sweetest Love I Do Not Go by John Donne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e18 - For Whom the Bell Tolls by John Donne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e19 - The Storm by John Donne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e20 - Sonnet VII - How Soon Hath Time the Subtle Thief of Youth by John Milton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e21 - On His Deceased Wife by John Milton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e22 - Lycidas by John Milton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e23 - 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\"\u003e24 - The Water Ballad by Samuel Taylor Coleridge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e25 - To a Primrose by Samuel Taylor Coleridge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e26 - Lament for Zenocrate by Christopher Marlowe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e27 - Our Conquering Swords by Christopher Marlowe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e28 - Accurs'd Be He That First Invented War by Christopher Marlowe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e29 - To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e30 - A Dialogue Between The Soul and Body by Andrew Marvell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e31 - The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e32 - To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e33 - Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast by Robert Herrick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e34 - His Meditation Upon Death by Robert Herrick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e35 - The Poet As Hero by Siegfried Sassoon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e36 - Glory of Women by Siegfried Sassoon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e37 - Desertion by Rupert Brooke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e38 - Pine-Trees and the Sky by Rupert Brooke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e39 - Written January 1st, 1832 by Henry Alford\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e40 - Sonnet LVI Written at York on the Day of the Coronation of Queen Victoria June 28th, 1838 by Henry Alford\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e41 - Elergy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e42 - Ode on the Spring by Thomas Gray\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e43 - The World's Age by Charles Kingsley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e44 - 21st September, 1870 by Charles Kingsley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e45 - Virtue by George Herbert\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e46 - Church Monuments by George Herbert\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e47 - At a Dinner Party by Amy Levy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e48 - London Poets by Amy Levy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e49 - Of English Verse by Edmund Waller\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e50 - Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e51 - The Forsaken Lover Consoleth Himself With Rememberance of Past Happiness by Sir Thomas Wyatt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e52 - Farewell Love and All Thy Laws Forever by Sir Thomas Wyatt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e53 - My Last Will by Sir Walter Raleigh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e54 - Life by Sir Walter Raleigh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e55 - Unbosoming by Michael Field aka Katherine Bradley \u0026amp; Edith Cooper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e56 - My Darling by Michael Field aka Katherine Bradley \u0026amp; Edith Cooper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e57 - A Litany in Time of Plague by Thomas Nashe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e58 - Fair Summer Droops From Summer's Last Will And Testament by Thomas Nashe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e59 - Sing a New Song by Sir Francis Bacon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e60 - The Life of Man by Sir Francis Bacon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e61 - Genius by Henry Kirk White\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e62 - Sonnet To April by Henry Kirk White\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e63 - The Embankment by T E Hulme\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e64 - Conversion by T E Hulme\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e65 - Solitude by Harold Munro\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e66 - Midnight Lamentation by Harold Munro\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e67 - The Given Heart by Abraham Cowley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e68 - A Supplication by Abraham Cowley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e69 - A Song - If Wine and Music Hath the Power by Matthew Prior\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e70 - Song XIX. Since We Your Husband Daily See by Matthew Prior\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e71 - Julbilate Agno by Christopher Smart\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e72 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e73 - My Life's Delight by Thomas Campion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e74 - Follow Thy Fair Sun by Thomas Campion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e75 - Upon Christ His Birth by Sir John Suckling\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e76 - I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e77 - The World That All Contains by Fulke Greville\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e78 - Mustapha by Fulke Greville\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e79 - A Devout Lover by Thomas Randolph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e80 - Upon His Picture by Thomas Randolph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e81 - Nymphs And Shepherds by Thomas Shadwell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e82 - Prepare Prepare by Thomas Shadwell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e83 - The Je Ne Sais Quoi by William Whitehead\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e84 - The Youth and the Philsopher by William Whitehead\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e85 - Cease Warring Thoughts by James Shirley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e86 - The Glories of Our Blood and State by James Shirley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e87 - A Poem Inscribed to the Queen by Laurence Eusden\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e88 - The Origin of the Knights of the Bath (Extract) by Laurence Eusden\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e89 - Ingratitude by Sir John Harrington\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e90 - Beauty by Sir John Harrington\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e91 - Of Beauty by Sir Richard Fanshawe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e92 - A Rose by Sir Richard Fanshawe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e93 - The Mirror For Magistrates - The Induction by Thomas Sackville\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e94 - A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem by Charles Sackville, Earl Of Dorset\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e95 - The Relapse by Thomas Stanley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e96 - Celia, Sleeping or Singing by Thomas Stanley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e97 - 4th July 1882, Malines, Midnight by James Kenneth Stephen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e98 - Any Father To Any Son by F B Money-Coutts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e99 - Shall We Not Love Thee Mother Dear by Henry Williams Baker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e100 - And If I Did What Then by George Gascoigne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e101 - Courage by Arthur Christopher Benson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e102 - Optimism by A Victor Ratcliffe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e103 - Severn, Friend of Keats by Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e104 - The Flaming Heart by Richard Crashaw\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e105 - On the Death of Princess Borghese, At Rome, November 1840 by Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e106 - Elegy - Supposed To Be Written in Barnet Churchyard by George Townsend\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e107 - Land of Hope and Glory (1902 version) by Arthur Christopher Benson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deadtree Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43435546017870,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1194\/4786\/files\/9781836828846.jpg?v=1771412347","url":"https:\/\/www.deadtreepublishing.com\/products\/born-in-england-exploring-english-poetry-cambridge-university-audiobook","provider":"Deadtree Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}