Born in England – Exploring English Poetry - Cambridge University: A celebration of English poems

Born in England – Exploring English Poetry - Cambridge University: A celebration of English poems

Title: Born in England – Exploring English Poetry - Cambridge University: A celebration of English poems
Author: William Wordsworth, John Dryden, Edmund Spenser, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Lord Byron, John Donne, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christopher Marlowe, Andrew Marvell, Robert Herrick, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Charles Kingsley & Sir Walter Raleigh
Release: 2025-01-01
Kind: audiobook
Genre: Fiction
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Born in England – Exploring Englis William Wordsworth, John Dryden, Edmund Spenser, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Lord Byron, John Donne, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christopher Marlowe, Andrew Marvell, Robert Herrick, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Charles Kingsley & Sir Walter Raleigh
Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each 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.
Through 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.

In 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.

England, 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. Famed 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. These classic poets are wonders of their age and of their art. Genius is written in their names.

In this volume we explore the poets of Cambridge. A small city, with its famed university, with an enviable historical grandeur and roll-call of poets who dazzle, humble and inspire us all in ways that only a poet can. Our poets include Christopher Marlowe, Lord Byron, Rupert Brooke, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Donne and the talents of very many others.

More from William Wordsworth, John Dryden, Edmund Spenser, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Lord Byron, John Donne, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christopher Marlowe, Andrew Marvell, Robert Herrick, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Charles Kingsley & Sir Walter Raleigh

John Keats, Percy Shelley, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon Byron & William Wordsworth
Louise May Alcott, Henry Vaughan, Robert Herrick, Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, John Donne, Clement Moore, William Wordsworth, Robert Southwell & G. K. Chesterton
John Keats, William Wordsworth, William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, W. B. Yeats, Thomas Hardy, Percy Shelley, John Milton, Wilfred Owen & Kahlil Gilbran
Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, William Wordsworth, Laurie Lee & Samuel Pepys
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Burns, Alexander Pope, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ben Jonson, Daniel Defoe, John Galsworthy, Kabir, Matthew Arnold, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Rudyard Kipling, W. B. Yeats, William Shakespeare & William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
John Keats, Robert Burns, Percy Shelley & William Wordsworth
William Blake, William Wordsworth & Alfred Tennyson
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Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, William Wordsworth, W.B. Yeats, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Siegfried Sassoon, John Keats, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ted Hughes, Percy Bysshe Shelley & Wilfred Owen
William Wordsworth, Fyodor Dostoevsky & Christinas Rossetti
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley & John Keats
William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, William Blake & William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge & William Wordsworth
William Shakespeare, Rupert Brooke, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Christopher Marlowe, D.H. Lawrence, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Bronte, John Donne, John Keats, Lord Byron, Matthew Arnold, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, W.B. Yeats, Wilfred Owen, William Blake & William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge & William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron & William Blake
Robert Louis Stevenson, William Wordsworth & Sarojini Naidu
John Keats, William Wordsworth & Ella Wheeler Wilcox
William Wordsworth
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L. E. Landon, William Blake, William Ernest Henley, Thomas Hardy, Coventry Patmore, William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold & Rudyard Kipling
William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Patrick Branwell Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Robert Browning, John Keats, Charlotte Smith, Michael Drayton, Alexander Pope, Edith Nesbit & Emily Jane Brontë
William Wordsworth, Rainer Maria Rilke & Christina Georgina Rossetti
Robert Browning, William Butler Yeats & William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth, Charles Swinburne, Henry Alford & Thomas Hardy
William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Nashe, Radclyffe Hall, Charlotte Mew, Isaac Rosenberg, Henry Baker, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Hafiz, Richard Le Gallienne & John Keats
William Wordsworth, John Clare, Katherine Mansfield, William Morris, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Amy Levy, Amy Lowell, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Blake & Walt Whitman
Edgar Allan Poe, Jalaluddin Rumi, John Keats, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Burns, Rudyard Kipling, W. B. Yeats, Walt Whitman, William Shakespeare & William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth, John Dryden, Edmund Spenser, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Lord Byron, John Donne, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christopher Marlowe, Andrew Marvell, Robert Herrick, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Charles Kingsley & Sir Walter Raleigh
Thomas Hardy, William Wordsworth & Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
William Blake, Amy Levy, Alexander Pope, Eugene Field, John Dryden, Lord Alfred Douglas, Matthew Arnold, Radclyffe Hall, Richard Le Gallienne, Robert Herrick, Robert Seymour Bridges & William Wordsworth
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William Wordsworth, Laurence Binyon, Timothy Thomas Fortune, Frances E. W. Harper, Hafiz, Thomas Babbington Macaulay, Ernest Radford, Thomas Moore, Rudyard Kipling, John Freeman & James Monroe Whitfield
John Milton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe & William Wordsworth