Romantic Poetry

Charles Lamb's poems are unabashedly sentimental, and perhaps for this reason he is still remembered as a poet and widely read today. Mary Lamb with Charles Lamb produced many well-known collections of poetry and prose for children. Hartley Coleridge published poems in the London Magazine. He excelled at composing sonnets and published a short collection, Poems. In his time, John Clare was commonly known as "the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet". He wrote in Northamptonshire dialect, introducing local words to the literary canon. His early work expresses delight in nature and the cycle of the rural year. Leigh Hunt's vivid descriptions and lyrical quality are noteworthy, as is his keen delight in nature, and he is a master of mood and atmosphere. As a poet, Walter Savage Landor was best known for his classic epigrams and idylls. Most of Dorothy Wordsworth's writing explores the natural world. Hannah More can be said to have made three reputations in the course of her long life: as a poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, as a writer on moral and religious subjects, and as a practical philanthropist. Sir Walter Scott's first love and earliest success was as a poet. Indeed, it is no understatement to say that he was the best-read, best-reviewed and best-paid poet of the Romantic period: Robert Southey was perhaps the most versatile, as well as one of the most prolific. He produced epics, romances, and metrical tales, ballads, plays, monodramas, odes, eclogues, sonnets, and miscellaneous lyrics. Mary Robinson became distinguished for her poetry and was reclassified as "the English Sappho" by the English public. She wrote eight collections of poems.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on William Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including "suspension of disbelief". He had a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson and American transcendentalism. (Ack.Wikipedia) This audiobook has the following poems rendered by Dr.N.Ramani, a Professor in English and a well known academician from India. Christabel Constancy to an Ideal Object Dejection: An Ode The Eolian Harp Fragment 10: The Three Sorts of Friends Fragment 1: Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud Fragment 2: I know 'tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December wind Fragment 4: As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood Fragment 5: Whom should I choose for my Judge? Fragment 6: The Moon, how definite its orb! Fragment 7: When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt Fragment 8: Thicker than rain-drops on November thorn Fragment 9: The Netherlands France: An Ode Frost at Midnight Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath Kubla Khan Love Love's Apparition and Evanishment: An Allegoric Romance Lyrical Ballads (1798) On Donne's Poem "To a Flea" On Donne's Poetry Something Childish, but Very Natural The Good, Great Man The Knight's Tomb The Nightingale The Pains of Sleep The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834) This Lime-tree Bower my Prison To Asra Work without Hope Youth and Age

William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850. (Ack.Wikipedia) This audiobook has the following poems rendered by Dr.N.Ramani, a Professor in English and a well known academician from India. A Complaint Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 Dion Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg I Travelled among Unknown Men I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free It is not to be Thought of Laodamia Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, London, 1802 Michael: A Pastoral Poem Most Sweet it is Mutability November, 1806 Nutting October, 1803 Ode to Duty Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic Resolution and Independence Scorn not the Sonnet September, 1819 She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman The Solitary Reaper Song at the Feast of Brougham Sonnets from The River Duddon: After-Thought The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement The Prelude: Book 1: Childhood and School-time The Prelude: Book 2: School-time (Continued) The Primrose of the Rock The Reverie of Poor Susan The Simplon Pass The Tables Turned To a Highland Girl To a Skylark To the Cuckoo AND OTHHER POEMS

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets including Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and W. B. Yeats. American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as "a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem." (Ack.Wikipedia) This audiobook has the following poems rendered by Dr.N.Ramani, a Professor in English and a well known academician from India. A Lament Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude And like a Dying Lady, Lean and Pale Archy's Song from Charles I (A Widow Bird Sate Mourning) Art thou pale for weariness England in 1819 Epipsychidion Hellas: Chorus Hymn of Pan Hymn to Intellectual Beauty Julian and Maddalo Lines Written among the Euganean Hills Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici Lines: "When the Lamp Is Shattered" Lines: The cold earth slept below Music when Soft Voices Die (To --) Mutability Ode to the West Wind One Sung of thee who Left the Tale Untold Ozymandias Queen Mab: Part VI Song: Rarely, rarely, comest thou Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples The Cloud The Fitful Alternations of the Rain The Indian Serenade The Question The Two Spirits: An Allegory Time Time Long Past To ---- To a Skylark To Jane: "The Keen Stars Were Twinkling" To Night To the Moon The Triumph of Life

John Keats was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems were indifferently received in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death. By the end of the century he was placed in the canon of English literature, strongly influencing many writers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Keats had a style "heavily loaded with sensualities", notably in the series of odes. Typically of the Romantics, he accentuated extreme emotion through natural imagery. Today his poems and letters remain among the most popular and analysed in English literature – in particular "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Sleep and Poetry" and the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer". (Ack.Wikipedia) This audiobook has the following poems rendered by Dr.N.Ramani, a Professor in English and a well known academician from India. Index to poems Bright Star, Would I were Steadfast as Thou Art Endymion Fancy Hyperion If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain'd Keen, Fitful Gusts are Whisp'ring Here and There La Belle Dame sans Merci Lines on the Mermaid Tavern Meg Merrilies Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode on Melancholy Ode to a Nightingale Ode to Psyche On First Looking into Chapman's Homer On Seeing the Elgin Marbles On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again Robin Hood The Eve of St. Agnes The Human Seasons To Autumn To Homer To Mrs. Reynold's Cat To One who has been Long in City Pent To Sleep When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be