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Power of Poetry, The - Poems for Inner Peace

Calm your mind with insightful advice from our greatest wordsmiths

by William Wordsworth ...

Narrated by Gideon Wagner ...

Unabridged

1 hour 30 min

Life is frenetic. Everything is running faster which usually means we are running later. Everything should have been done 5 minutes ago or better still yesterday. We are slowly falling behind, overwhelmed by busy lives in an ever-exacting world.In these more modern times, time is everything. There’s never enough of it.So how do we slow down and become more comfortable with our lives, how do we ... Read more

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Life is frenetic. Everything is running faster which usually means we are running later. Everything should have been done 5 minutes ago or better still yesterday. We are slowly falling behind, overwhelmed by busy lives in an ever-exacting world.In these more modern times, time is everything. There’s never enough of it.So how do we slow down and become more comfortable with our lives, how do we
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Poetry of John Donne, The

A priest who was one of the leading Metaphysic poets and writer of love poems

by John Donne ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner ...

Unabridged

51 min

John Donne was born on 22nd January 1572 in London into a Roman Catholic family when Catholicism was illegal in England and there was turbulence and unrest with both state and church throughout much of Europe. His father, also named John, died when he was 4 and his mother, Elizabeth Heywood married a wealthy widower, ensuring the family were looked after. He received a good education in both ... Read more

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John Donne was born on 22nd January 1572 in London into a Roman Catholic family when Catholicism was illegal in England and there was turbulence and unrest with both state and church throughout much of Europe. His father, also named John, died when he was 4 and his mother, Elizabeth Heywood married a wealthy widower, ensuring the family were looked after. He received a good education in both
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Poetry of John Milton, The

Sparkling poems from the famed man behind Paradise Lost

by John Milton ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner ...

Unabridged

1 hour 1 min

John Milton was born in Bread Street, London, on December 9th, 1608. His early years were privately tutored before gaining a place at St Paul’s School and in 1625 he matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge, earning a BA in 1629 and an MA in 1632. At Cambridge he had developed a reputation for poetic skill but also experienced alienation from his peers and university life as a whole.The next 6 ... Read more

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John Milton was born in Bread Street, London, on December 9th, 1608. His early years were privately tutored before gaining a place at St Paul’s School and in 1625 he matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge, earning a BA in 1629 and an MA in 1632. At Cambridge he had developed a reputation for poetic skill but also experienced alienation from his peers and university life as a whole.The next 6
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Halloween Poems Volume 2

by Lord Byron, John Keats, William Shakespeare ...

Narrated by Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner ...

Series series Halloween Poems
Unabridged

38 min

I should be whispering this because Halloween is almost upon us. A time of Witches, Ghouls and Hauntings and all kinds of scary things that come out the evening before All Saints Day to wreak….…… I’m glad you’re listening so let us begin- Many of us remember that feeling from childhood when an adult or even our friends would tell us scary stories of things that go bump in the night. It was a time ... Read more

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I should be whispering this because Halloween is almost upon us. A time of Witches, Ghouls and Hauntings and all kinds of scary things that come out the evening before All Saints Day to wreak….…… I’m glad you’re listening so let us begin- Many of us remember that feeling from childhood when an adult or even our friends would tell us scary stories of things that go bump in the night. It was a time
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Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, The

Innovative poet that posthumously inspired T S Eliot , Dylan Thomas, W H Auden & others

by Gerard Manley Hopkins ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner ...

Unabridged

1 hour 12 min

Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Stratford, then part of Essex on 28th July, 1844, to deeply religious parents?the first of nine children.The family moved to Hampstead in 1852, near to where John Keats had lived thirty years before. At age ten the young Gerard was sent to school in nearby Highgate and afterwards to Balliol College, Oxford.Hopkins was unusually shy and reserved and prone to ... Read more

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Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Stratford, then part of Essex on 28th July, 1844, to deeply religious parents?the first of nine children.The family moved to Hampstead in 1852, near to where John Keats had lived thirty years before. At age ten the young Gerard was sent to school in nearby Highgate and afterwards to Balliol College, Oxford.Hopkins was unusually shy and reserved and prone to
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Halloween Poems Volume 1

by Lord Byron, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare ...

Narrated by Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner ...

Series series Halloween Poems
Unabridged

39 min

I should be whispering this because Halloween is almost upon us. A time of Witches, Ghouls and Hauntings and all kinds of scary things that come out the evening before All Saints Day to wreak….…… I’m glad you’re listening so let us begin- Many of us remember that feeling from childhood when an adult or even our friends would tell us scary stories of things that go bump in the night. It was a time ... Read more

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I should be whispering this because Halloween is almost upon us. A time of Witches, Ghouls and Hauntings and all kinds of scary things that come out the evening before All Saints Day to wreak….…… I’m glad you’re listening so let us begin- Many of us remember that feeling from childhood when an adult or even our friends would tell us scary stories of things that go bump in the night. It was a time
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Poetry of the 17th Century, The - Volume 1

by Aphra Behn, John Donne, John Dryden ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner ...

Unabridged

1 hour 59 min

The Elizabethan age had almost departed and the world had seen the rise of great European empires that continued to hunt with mischief between themselves as they traversed the globe in search of more spoils and territories. In England the Civil War had brought about the Will of Parliament and the replacement of the Crown as the governing body. But with these Puritan times, and the subsequent ... Read more

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The Elizabethan age had almost departed and the world had seen the rise of great European empires that continued to hunt with mischief between themselves as they traversed the globe in search of more spoils and territories. In England the Civil War had brought about the Will of Parliament and the replacement of the Crown as the governing body. But with these Puritan times, and the subsequent
... Read more
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Poetry of World War I, The

by Wilfred Owen, Charles Sorley, Edward Thomas ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner ...

Unabridged

59 min

In the War a great volume of poetry was written, produced and published in books, periodicals, newspapers or letters back to home. We often think of War as a necessity. We fight for a more just and better world. We often fail. But in our poets we gain a truth and a morality that shocks us, consoles us and holds our values to the light. In this volume we hear poems from the front, from home, from ... Read more

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In the War a great volume of poetry was written, produced and published in books, periodicals, newspapers or letters back to home. We often think of War as a necessity. We fight for a more just and better world. We often fail. But in our poets we gain a truth and a morality that shocks us, consoles us and holds our values to the light. In this volume we hear poems from the front, from home, from
... Read more
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Poetry of World War I, The - The Top 100

by Laurence Binyon, Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Jake Urry, Gideon Wagner ...

Unabridged

1 hour 51 min

War may be rationalized as ‘diplomacy by other means’ but the reality is that when tribes, Nations and peoples bring themselves into armed conflict with one another mayhem, terror and slaughter are the result.In the First World War, The Great War, The War to End all Wars any idealistic aims that it was a ‘just cause’ and would be all over in a few months were shattered against the vast scale of ... Read more

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War may be rationalized as ‘diplomacy by other means’ but the reality is that when tribes, Nations and peoples bring themselves into armed conflict with one another mayhem, terror and slaughter are the result.In the First World War, The Great War, The War to End all Wars any idealistic aims that it was a ‘just cause’ and would be all over in a few months were shattered against the vast scale of
... Read more
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Poetry of Death Volume 2, The

by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, Edgar Allan Poe, Percy Bysshe Shelley ...

Narrated by Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Poetry of Death
Unabridged

1 hour 1 min

Death is a subject that few of us talk about, but many think about and more than a few of us dread. Whether it is the actual end of our life’s journey or merely a transit point to Heavenly glory its actual point of impact is, obviously, life changing. But what do poets think of it? How do their minds tangle with the subject and make sense of this? That’s what we thought too. Poets as rich and ... Read more

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Death is a subject that few of us talk about, but many think about and more than a few of us dread. Whether it is the actual end of our life’s journey or merely a transit point to Heavenly glory its actual point of impact is, obviously, life changing. But what do poets think of it? How do their minds tangle with the subject and make sense of this? That’s what we thought too. Poets as rich and
... Read more
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Poets of 19th Century America, The: Volume 2

by Various Authors, Walt Whitman, James Whitcomb Riley, Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Lorelei King, Ghizela Rowe, William Dufris, Gideon Wagner, Kate Harper, Patricia Rodriguez, Tim Graham ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Poets of 19th Century America
Unabridged

1 hour 15 min

America. Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. Across its vast landscape a Nation was being built. Expanded into its vast frontiers by military force and financial acquisitions; this was a melting pot of peoples and ideas gathering to form an identity. In these volumes we take a particular interest in the poets of the 19th Century and their views as their young nation came to terms with itself and ... Read more

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America. Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. Across its vast landscape a Nation was being built. Expanded into its vast frontiers by military force and financial acquisitions; this was a melting pot of peoples and ideas gathering to form an identity. In these volumes we take a particular interest in the poets of the 19th Century and their views as their young nation came to terms with itself and
... Read more
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Tintern Abbey

Glorious poem evoking the beauty of a church monument

by William Wordsworth ...

Narrated by Gideon Wagner ...

Unabridged

8 min

William Wordsworth was born on 7 April, 1770 in Cockermouth, in Cumbria, northwest England.Wordsworth spent his early years in his beloved Lake District often with his sister, Dorothy. The English lakes could terrify as well as nurture, and as Wordsworth would write “I grew up fostered alike by beauty and by fear,”After being schooled at Hawkshead he went to St. John’s College, Cambridge but not ... Read more

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William Wordsworth was born on 7 April, 1770 in Cockermouth, in Cumbria, northwest England.Wordsworth spent his early years in his beloved Lake District often with his sister, Dorothy. The English lakes could terrify as well as nurture, and as Wordsworth would write “I grew up fostered alike by beauty and by fear,”After being schooled at Hawkshead he went to St. John’s College, Cambridge but not
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