{"product_id":"born-in-england-exploring-english-poetry-london-audiobook","title":"Born in England – Exploring English Poetry - London  (Audiobook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA celebration of English poems\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe \u0026amp; David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 1hr 52mins)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing poems by William Blake, John Keats, John Donne \u0026amp; many more\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 - London - An Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e2 - The Reeve's Tale - An Extract by Geoffrey Chaucer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e3 - The Tyger by William Blake\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e4 - La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e5 - To His Mistress Going to Bed by John Donne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e6 - Darkness by Lord Byron\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e7 - My Love is Like to Ice by Edmund Spenser\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e8 - A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme by Ben Jonson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e9 - Sonnet VII - How Soon Hath Time The Subtle Thief of Youth by John Milton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e10 - Dreamland by Christina Rossetti\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e11 - Farewell to London in the Year 1715 by Alexander Pope\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e12 - The Jumblies by Edward Lear\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e13 - My Last Duchess by Robert Browning\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e14 - Ode To The Moon by Thomas Hood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e15 - The True Born Englishman by Daniel Defoe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e16 - The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e17 - Wine and Water by G K Chesterton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e18 - Ode on the Spring by Thomas Gray\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e19 - Love and Folly by Charlotte Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e20 - The Glory by Edward Thomas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e21 - The Message of the March Wind by William Morris\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e22 - Night by John Ruskin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e23 - Silent Noon by Dante Gabriel Rossetti\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e24 - Love and Hate by Elizabeth Siddal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e25 - Four Songs For Four Seasons by Algernon Charles Swinburne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e26 - To A Poet by Alice Meynell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e27 - Hop Picking by Edith Nesbit\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e28 - Scenes In London IV - The City Churchyard by Letitia Elizabeth Landon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e29 - Thiepval Wood by Edmund Blunden\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e30 - The Suicide's Grave by W S Gilbert\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e31 - The Life of Man by Sir Francis Bacon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e32 - Wishes of an Elderly Man Wished at a Garden Party, June 1914 by Walter Alexander Raleigh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e33 - When My Love Did What I Would Not by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e34 - The Volunteer by Herbert Asquith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e35 - His Return to London by Robert Herrick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e36 - From Piccadilly in August by John Freeman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e37 - London Poets by Amy Levy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e38 - A Poet Unknown by Ernest Rhys\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e39 - Cherry-Ripe by Thomas Campion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e40 - The Female Philosopher by Charlotte Dacre\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e41 - Your Strange Hair by Renee Vivien\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e42 - I Serve A Mistress by Anthony Munday\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e43 - A Supplication by Abraham Cowley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e44 - The Flaming Heart by Richard Crashaw\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e45 - How Near I Am to Happiness by Thomas Middleton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e46 - A Night Rain In Summer by James Henry Leigh Hunt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e47 - Sonnet XIV by Mary Wroth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e48 - Hot Sun Cool Fire by George Peele\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e49 - Yet Might She Love Me by Thomas Kyd\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e50 - Formosae Puellae by Herbert P Horne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e51 - Now That You Too by Eleanor Farjeon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e52 - Written in July by Samuel Rogers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e53 - I Leave Thee for a While by Eliza Cook\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e54 - On the Death of Princess Borghese, At Rome, November 1840 by Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e55 - The Sad Day by Thomas Flatman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e56 - A Football Player by E C Lefroy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e57 - February by Louisa Sarah Bevington\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e58 - The Earth, Late Chok'd with Showers by Thomas Lodge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e59 - February by Dollie Radford\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e60 - To Mrs Jane Forster, On Her Birthday, August 4th 1724 by Henry Baker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e61 - An August Evening, 1865 by Carolyn Clive\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e62 - October by John Payne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e63 - The Little London Girl by Kate Greenaway\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e64 - On My Leaving London, June the 29th by Sarah Fyge-Egerton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e65 - Lines Written in London by Frances Anne kemble\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e66 - London, My Beautiful by F S Flint\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e67 - Philomel in London by Edmund William Gosse\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e68 - The Blind Boy by Colley Cibber\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e69 - The Orphan by Ann Taylor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e70 - The Twins by Henry Sambrooke Leigh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e71 - The Mother by May Herschel-Clarke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e72 - Poverty by Jane Taylor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e73 - Munition Wages by Madeline Ida Bedford\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e74 - The Slavery of Greece by George Canning\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e75 - The Vampiress by Lord Lytton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e76 - The Glories of Our Blood and State by James Shirley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e77 - Verdun by Eden Phillpotts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e78 - 4th July 1882, Malines, Midnight by James Kenneth Stephen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e79 - Over the Top by Sybil Bristowe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e80 - The Dawn Patrol by Paul Bewsher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e81 - Into Battle by Julian Grenfell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e82 - Hymn After Battle by Arthur St John Adcock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e83 - The Rainbow by Leslie Coulson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e84 - Marching Men by Marjorie Pickthall\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e85 - A Cross in Flanders by G Rostrevor Hamilton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e86 - The Deserter by Gilbert Frankau\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e87 - To Our Fallen by Robert Ernest Vernede\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e88 - The Shell by H Smalley Sarson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e89 - Zeppliins by Nancy Cunard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e90 - The Flying Fish by John Gray\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e91 - To the Doubtful Reader by Amelia Lanyer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e92 - 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