Poets & Their Trades - Playwrights (Audiobook)

Read by Richard Mitchley, Sean Barrett, Mark Rice-Oxley(Unabridged: 02:29mins)

Featuring stories by William Shakespeare, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rabrindranath Tagore, Robert Browning, Christopher Marlowe, John Dryden, Oscar WIlde, Michael Drayton, Laurence Binyon, William Congreve, Thomas Shadwell & many more

The life and career of a Poet is often thought of as musing at a desk, or lying in a meadow, or on long journeys to find inspiration for their next masterwork. But more often than not a poet was a part-time profession in subservient submission to their actual, salary-paying job.

In this volume we bring together those whose craft is the drafting of words into stories and plays that others read or watch. Of course, in Centuries past poetry was often interwoven into plays and yet, in the pens of these talents, their verse can not only stand alone and complete but rise to its own Art and the demanding tests of time.

1 - Poets & Their Trades - Playwrights - An Introduction

2 - Sonnet 130 - My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun by William Shakespeare

3 - Sonnet 76 - Why is My Verse So Barren of New Pride by William Shakespeare

4 - Sonnet 98 - From You Have I Been Absent In The Spring by William Shakespeare

5 - The First Walpurgis Night (Extract) by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

6 - November Song by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

7 - Calm at Sea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

8 - Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley

9 - Music When Soft Voices Die by Percy Bysshe Shelley

10 - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

11 - Ekla Chalo Re by Tagore

12 - The Rainy Day by Tagore

13 - My Polar Star by Rabrindranath Tagore

14 - A Lover's Quarrel by Robert Browning

15 - Verse Making by Robert Browning

16 - Lament for Zenocrate by Christopher Marlowe

17 - Accurs'd Be He That First Invented War by Christopher Marlowe

18 - Can Life Be a Blessing by John Dryden

19 - Dreams by John Dryden

20 - Proud Maisie by Walter Scott

21 - Lochinvar by Sir Walter Scott

22 - Endymion by Oscar Wilde

23 - Serenade by Oscar WIlde

24 - Capping Rhymes with Sir Shih Ching From Sun's Root Land by Qui Jin

25 - An Inscription for Zheng Shujin's Painting by Qiu Jin

26 - Sonnet LVIII - In Former Times by Michael Drayton

27 - Sonnet XIII - Letters and Lines by Michael Drayton

28 - Snow by Louis MacNiece

29 - The Mirror For Magistrates - The Induction by Thomas Sackville

30 - London by Joanna Baillie

31 - Verses Written In Febuary 1824 by Joanna Baillie

32 - Morning by Mary Dar|Robinson

33 - Life by Mary Dar|Robinson

34 - No Platonic Love by William Cartwright

35 - Falsehood  by William Cartwright

36 - If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

37 - An Old Woman of the Roads by Padraic Colum

38 - As I Walked Through London by Laurence Binyon

39 - Men of Verdun by Lawrence Binyon

40 - A Litany in Time of Plague by Thomas Nashe

41 - Fair Summer Droops From Summer's Last Will And Testament by Thomas Nashe

42 - A Ballad of Hell by John Davidson

43 - The Ballad of a Nun by John Davidson

44 - Hot Sun Cool Fire by George Peele

45 - Heaven by Edward Fairfax

46 - The Glance by Francis Beaumont

47 - On the Tombs at Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont

48 - Ladies In Arms by William Davenant

49 - Morning Song by William Davenant

50 - The Spacious Firmament by Joseph Addison

51 - Hope by Joseph Addison

52 - False Though She Be by William Congreve

53 - A Hue and Cry After Fair Amoret by William Congreve

54 - How Near I Am To Happiness by Thomas Middleton

55 - A Devout Lover by Thomas Randolph

56 - Upon His Picture by Thomas Randolph

57 - Broadway, New York, July 1916 by George Sterling

58 - A Moment by John Todhunter

59 - The Banshee by John Todhunter

60 - Of Earth by Margaret Cavendish

61 - If Infinite Worlds, Infinite Centres by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle

62 - The Earth, Late Chok'd with Showers by Thomas Lodge

63 - An Elegy on a Pile of Ruins by John Cunningham

64 - The Youth and the Philsopher by William Whitehead

65 - The Je Ne Sais Quoi by William Whitehead

66 - Blue Blood by W S Gilbert

67 - The Suicide's Grave by W S Gilbert

68 - The Slave Trade. A Poem by Hannah More

69 - Beauty, Time and Love by Samuel Daniel

70 - Go Wailing Verse by Samuel Daniel

71 - The Village by Oliver Goldsmith

72 - Stanzas on the Taking of Quebec and the Death of General Wolfe by Oliver Goldsmith 

73 - The Great Panjandrum by Samuel Foote

74 - Prepare Prepare by Thomas Shadwell

75 - Dear Pretty Youth by Thomas Shadwell

76 - Cease Warring Thoughts by James Shirley

77 - The Glories of Our Blood and State by James Shirley

78 - The Twins by Henry Sambrooke Leigh

79 - A Carol. I by Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland

80 - Collin's Complaint by Nicholas Rowe

81 - Queens by John Millington Synge

82 - The Curse by J M Synge

83 - Mother Machree by Rida Johnson-Young

84 - Rapture Divine by Jacopone da Todi

85 - The Beautiful Mother by Jacopone da Todi

86 - Yet Might She Love Me by Thomas Kyd

87 - A Portrait by Richard Brinsley Sheridan