{"product_id":"born-in-england-exploring-english-poetry-oxford-university-audiobook","title":"Born in England – Exploring English Poetry - Oxford 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, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 4hrs 3mins)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Matthew Arnold, John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkin \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 - Oxford University - An Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e2 - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e3 - Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e4 - The Witch of Atlas by Percy Bysshe Shelley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e5 - Go And Catch A Falling Star by John Donne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e6 - Death Be Not Proud by John Donne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e7 - Witchcraft By a Picture by John Donne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e8 - Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e9 - The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e10 - Longing by Matthew Arnold\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e11 - Epithalamion by Gerard Manley Hopkins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e12 - I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark Not Day by Gerard Manley Hopkins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e13 - May Magnificat by Gerard Manley Hopkins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e14 - The Laws of God, The Laws of Man by A E Houseman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e15 - Hell's Gate by A E Houseman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e16 - A Shropshire Lad XIX - To An Athlete Dying Young by A E Houseman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e17 - Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e18 - Poems on the Slave Trade - Sonnet I by Robert Southey\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e19 - Sonnet I - Go Valentine and Tell That Lovely Maid by Robert Southey\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e20 - Leave Me O Love by Sir Philip Sidney\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e21 - Sonnet I from Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e22 - The Smokes of Melancholy by Sir Philip Sidney\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e23 - Loves Lies Bleeding by Algernon Charles Swinburne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e24 - A Ballad of Death by Algernon Charles Swinburne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e25 - Love and Sleep by Algernon Charles Swinburne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e26 - For Beauty Being the Best of All We Know by Robert Seymour Bridges\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e27 - My Delight and Your Delight by Robert Seymour Bridges\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e28 - North Wind in October by Robert Seymour Bridges\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e29 - The Ballad of Agincourt by Michael Drayton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e30 - Idea's Mirror Sonnet XXXVII. Dear Why Should You Command Me To My Rest by Michael Drayton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e31 - Love's Farewell by Michael Drayton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e32 - Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e33 - A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky (Life Is But a Dream) by Lewis Carroll\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e34 - The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e35 - Love is Enough by William Morris\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e36 - Summer Dawn by William Morris\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e37 - The Message of the March Wind by William Morris\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e38 - Adlestrop by Edward Thomas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e39 - No One So Much As You by Edward Thomas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e40 - A Private by Edward Thomas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e41 - England's Poet by Laurence Binyon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e42 - For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e43 - Ypres by Laurence Binyon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e44 - In Making Bodies Love Could Not Express by Thomas Traherne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e45 - Shadows in the Water by Thomas Traherne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e46 - The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e47 - Sunlight and the Sea by Alfred Noyes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e48 - Love Conquer'd by Richard Lovelace\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e49 - Strive Not Vain Lover by Richard Lovelace\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e50 - The Second Rapture by Thomas Carew\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e51 - Lips and Eyes by Thomas Carew\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e52 - To My Sister by Ewart Alan Mackintosh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e53 - In Memoriam by Ewart Alan Mackintosh (Killed in Action 21st November 1917, Aged 24)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e54 - Above the Battle by Katherine Lee Bates\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e55 - America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e56 - In a London Square by Arthur Hugh Clough\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e57 - Le Diner by Arthur Hugh Clough\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e58 - The Spacious Firmament by Joseph Addison\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e59 - Hope by Joseph Addison\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e60 - Farewell To The Court by Sir Walter Raleigh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e61 - My Last Will by Sir Walter Raleigh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e62 - Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regrno Cynarae by Ernest Christopher Dowson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e63 - If We Must Part by Ernest Christopher Dowson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e64 - A Lover Out of Fashion by Sir John Davies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e65 - Man by Sir John Davies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e66 - A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e67 - Absent of Thee I Languish Still by Lord John Wilmot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e68 - My Darling Dear, My Daisy Flower by John Skelton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e69 - A Prayer to the Father of Heaven by John Skelton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e70 - Shakespeare and Milton by Walter Savage Landor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e71 - My Serious Son by W S Landor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e72 - Hot Sun Cool Fire by George Peele\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e73 - The Sad Shepherd's Passion of Love by George Peele\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e74 - Sun-dial in the Churchyard of Bremhill by William Lisle Bowles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e75 - Sonnet at Ostend July 22nd 1787 by William Lisle Bowles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e76 - Fair is My Love and Cruel As She's Fair by Samuel Daniel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e77 - Beauty, Time and Love by Samuel Daniel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e78 - To Shakespeare by Lord Alfred Douglas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e79 - Impression de Nuit (London) by Lord Alfred Douglas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e80 - Cease Warring Thoughts by James Shirley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e81 - The Glories of Our Blood and State by James Shirley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e82 - To One Asleep by Victor Plarr\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e83 - The Haunting Dream by Victor Plarr\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e84 - Ode To Sleep by Thomas Warton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e85 - Solitude At An Inn by Thomas Warton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e86 - If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart by Thomas Lovell Beddoes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e87 - Dream Pediary by Thomas Lovell Beddoes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e88 - Night by John Ruskin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e89 - Trust Thou Thy Love by John Ruskin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e90 - The Relapse by Thomas Stanley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e91 - Celia, Sleeping or Singing by Thomas Stanley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e92 - Shall We Go Kiss Kiss by Nicholas Breton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e93 - Pretty Twinkling Starry Eyes by Nicholas Breton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e94 - Morning by John Keble\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e95 - November by John Keble\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e96 - Oh Could I Flow by John Denham\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e97 - An Occasional Imitation of a Modern Author Upon the Game of Chess by John Denham\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e98 - Of Tears by John Beaumont\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e99 - Of His Dear Son Gervase by Sir John Beaumont\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e100 - Falsehood by William Cartwright\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e101 - No Platonic Love by William Cartwright\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e102 - Railway Times by Martin Faraquar Tupper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e103 - A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eII - The Factory Slave by Martin Farquhar Tupper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e104 - God How I Hate You by Arthur Graeme West\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e105 - The Night Patrol by Arthur Graeme West\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e106 - I Tracked a Dead Man Down a Trench by Walter S. S. Lyon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e107 - Easter at Ypres 1915 by Walter S S Lyon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e108 - War and Peace by Edgell Rickword\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e109 - Trench Poets by Edgell Rickword\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e110 - Into Battle by Julian Grenfell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e111 - To a Black Greyhound by Julian Grenfell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e112 - Before Action by Lieutenant William Noel Hodgson MC\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e113 - Back To Rest by Lieutenant William Noel Hodgson MC\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e114 - A Football Player by E C Lefroy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e115 - A Cricket Bowler by EC Lefroy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e116 - The Snowdrop by Henry James Pye\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e117 - Song. The Flowers of the Spring That Enamel the Vale by Henry James Pye\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e118 - An Appeal to Cats in the Business of Love by Thomas Flatman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e119 - The Sad Day by Thomas Flatman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e120 - When A Man Is Fatigu'd with the Toils of the Day by James Bland Burgess\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e121 - Love Like An April Day Beguiles by James Bland Burgess\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e122 - Sonnet of Black Beauty by Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e123 - Tears Flow No More by Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e124 - A Quiet Soul by John Oldham\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e125 - Renunciation by Henry King\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e126 - How Near I Am to Happiness by Thomas Middleton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e127 - Going Down Hill on a Bicycle, a Boy's Song by Henry Charles Beeching\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e128 - The Great Panjandrum by Samuel Foote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e129 - A Bow Meeting Song by R Heiber\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e130 - Ballade of Cricket by Andrew Lang\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e131 - Arma Virumque by Alfred Cochrane\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e132 - The Church Cricketent by Norman Gale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e133 - The Slavery of Greece by George Canning\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e134 - Hades by Robert C O Benjamon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e135 - On Reading Mr Clarkson's History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade by John Wilson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e136 - The Earth, Late Chok'd with Showers by Thomas Lodge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e137 - The Fairies Farewell by Richard Corbet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e138 - The Wind's Lament by John Morris-Jones\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e139 - Picnic July 1917 by Rose Macaulay\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e140 - April, 1918 by Henry Christopher Bradby\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e141 - A Cross in Flanders by G Rostrevor Hamilton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e142 - Home Service by Geoffrey Faber\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e143 - To Our Fallen by Robert Ernest Vernede\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e144 - All is Well by Henry Scott Holland\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deadtree Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43435546050638,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1194\/4786\/files\/9781836828853.jpg?v=1771411900","url":"https:\/\/www.deadtreepublishing.com\/products\/born-in-england-exploring-english-poetry-oxford-university-audiobook","provider":"Deadtree Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}