Born in England – Exploring English Poetry - The East Midlands: A celebration of English poems

Born in England – Exploring English Poetry - The East Midlands: A celebration of English poems

Title: Born in England – Exploring English Poetry - The East Midlands: A celebration of English poems
Author: John Dryden, Alfred Lord Tennyson, D. H. Lawrence, Anne Bradstreet, John Clare, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Seward, John Beaumont, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Francis Beaumont, John Skelton, Anne Askew, John William Streets, Jean Ingelow, Thomas Randolph, Jane Barker, William Lisle Bowles, Jessie Pope, Henry Kirke White & Mary Leapor
Release: 2025-01-01
Kind: audiobook
Genre: Fiction
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Born in England – Exploring Englis John Dryden, Alfred Lord Tennyson, D. H. Lawrence, Anne Bradstreet, John Clare, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Seward, John Beaumont, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Francis Beaumont, John Skelton, Anne Askew, John William Streets, Jean Ingelow, Thomas Randolph, Jane Barker, William Lisle Bowles, Jessie Pope, Henry Kirke White & Mary Leapor
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 our poems come from the East Midlands in the centre of England. Once a vast manufacturing hub whose industries invented, created and exported the future to the entire world. From its industry and grime came poets of the first rank including Alfred Lord Tennyson, D H Lawrence, Anne Bradstreet, John Dryden, John Clare and many others.

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