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    The Poetry of December
    The Poetry of December
    The Poetry of December
    Audiobook40 minutes

    The Poetry of December

    Written by John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Alfred Tennyson and

    Narrated by Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

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    DECEMBER - The 12th month and closing month in the Gregorian calendar. Winter is upon the land and the poets including such as Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Shakespeare and Stevenson reflect their views and thoughts Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The tracks are; December - An Introduction; Ode Written On The First Of December By Robert Southey; A Calendar Of Sonnets - December By Helen Hunt Jackson; A December Day By Robert Fuller Murray; A Wife In London (December 1899) By Thomas Hardy; Come Come Thou Bleak December Wind (Fragment 3) By Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Snow-Bound (The Sun That Brief December Day) By John Greenleaf Whittier; How Like A Winter Hath my Absence Been - Sonnet 97 By William Shakespeare; December By John Payne; Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills By Percy Bysshe Shelley; Sicily December 1908 By Henry Van Dyke; December By John Bannister Tabb; December Sales Drive By Daniel Sheehan; The Idlers Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Year - December By Wilfred Scawen Blunt; The December Rose By Edith Nesbit; On The Death Of Major Whitefoord, December 15th 1825 By Eliza Acton; December Matins By Alfred Austin; To A Lady Who Presented to The Author A Lock Of Hair Braided With His Own And Appointed A Night In December To Meet Him In The Garden By Lord Byron; Winter Stores By Charlotte Bronte; In Drear Nighted December By John Keats; The Foolish Fir Tree By Henry Van Dyke; The Death Of The Old Year By Alfred Lord Tennyson; Christmas At Sea By Robert Louis Stevenson; December 23rd 1879 By George MacDonald; Old Christmastide (An Extract) By Sir Walter Scott; Christmas Bells By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Ceremonies For Christmas By Robert Herrick; December 27th 1879 By George MacDonald; At The Entering Of The New Year By Thomas Hardy; Ring Out Wild Bells By Alfred Lord Tennyson.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Copyright Group
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9781780002118
    The Poetry of December
    Author

    John Keats

    John Keats was born in London in 1795. He and his siblings were orphaned at a young age - his father died in a riding accident in 1804 and his mother died six years later. Keats then left Enfield school to train as an apothecary and a surgeon but he was to leave his profession to dedicate his time to poetry. His first volume, Poems, was published in 1817 and only two more volumes, in 1818 and 1820, were published during his lifetime. In 1818 he fell in love with his neighbour Fanny Brawne, but he broke off their engagement due to his increasing ill health and lack of funds. In 1820 he moved to Italy where he died a year later of tuberculosis, the disease that claimed his mother and his brother Tom.

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