{"product_id":"born-in-england-exploring-english-poetry-the-west-midlands-audiobook","title":"Born in England – Exploring English Poetry - The West Midlands (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, Robert Maskell, Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 17mins)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing poems by Wilfred Owen, Michael Drayton, A E Housman \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 West Midlands - An Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e2 - Arms and the Boy by Wilfred Owen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e3 - Has Your Soul Sipped by Wilfred Owen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e4 - Apologia Pro Poemate Meo by Wilfred Owen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e5 - The Ballad of Agincourt by Michael Drayton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e6 - Glastonbury by Michael Drayton from Poly-Olbion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e7 - To His Coy Love by Michael Drayton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e8 - Because I Liked You\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eby A E Housman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e9 - They Say My Verse is Sad.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eNo Wonder by A E Housman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e10 - Tell Me Not Here, It Needs Not Saying by A E Housman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e11 - Desertion by Rupert Brooke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e12 - The Funeral of Youth. Threnody by Rupert Brooke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e13 - Sonnet - Oh! Death Will Find Me, Long Before I Tire by Rupert Brooke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e14 - Shakespeare's Kingdom by Alfred Noyes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e15 - The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e16 - Sunlight and the Sea by Alfred Noyes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e17 - The Embankment by T E Hulme\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e18 - Conversion by T E Hulme\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e19 - Trenches - St Eloi by T E Hulme\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e20 - The War Films by Henry Newbolt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e21 - Vitai Lampada by Henry Newbolt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e22 - The Vigil by Henry Newbolt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e23 - Count That Day Lost by George Eliot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e24 - Two Lovers by George Eliot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e25 - Sweet Evenings Come and Go Love by George Eliot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e26 - Love's End by Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e27 - Tears Flow No More by Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e28 - In Making Bodies Love Could Not Express by Thomas Traherne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e29 - Shadows in the Water by Thomas Traherne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e30 - The Angler's Ballad by Charles Cotton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e31 - On the Great Eater of Grays Inn by Charles Cotton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e32 - O by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e33 - O Lord in Me There Lieth Naught by Mary Sidney Herbert\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e34 - Pro Patria by Owen Seamen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e35 - The Avengers by Owen Seamen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e36 - My Serious Son by Walter Savage Landor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e37 - Shakespeare and Milton by Walter Savage Landor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e38 - To Shakespeare by Lord Alfred Douglas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e39 - Impression de Nuit (London) by Lord Alfred Douglas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e40 - My Darling by Michael Field aka Katherine Bradley \u0026amp; Edith Cooper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e41 - Unbosoming Michael Field aka Katherine Bradley \u0026amp; Edith Cooper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e42 - The Goldfish by Allen Upward\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e43 - Finis by Allen Upward\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e44 - The World That All Contains by Fulke Greville\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e45 - Mustapha by Fulke Greville\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e46 - To Roses in the Bosom of Castara by William Habington\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e47 - Picnic July 1917 by Rose Macaulay\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e48 - Home Service by Geoffrey Faber\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e49 - Hearts of Oak by David Garrick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e50 - Perhaps by Vera Brittain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e51 - All is Well by Henry Scott Holland\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deadtree Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43435545821262,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1194\/4786\/files\/9781836828785_30c73ce3-14d4-4770-87ad-c17dfb3ad553.jpg?v=1771412728","url":"https:\/\/www.deadtreepublishing.com\/products\/born-in-england-exploring-english-poetry-the-west-midlands-audiobook","provider":"Deadtree Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}