The Poetry of July

A Month in Verse

De: William Shakespeare, John Keats, Emily Dickenson, Walt Whitman, Alexander Pope

Narrado por: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe

July - the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, and summer is a rich harvest of colours and sights. Poets of the calibre of Shakespeare, Keats, Pope, Whitman, and Tennyson describe and marshall their thoughts for our delight.

The tracks are:

• July - An Introduction
• July 2nd 1863, by Tom Reynolds
• America, From the National Ode, July 4th 1876, by James Bayard Taylor
• 4th July 1882, Malines, Midnight, by James Kenneth Stephen
• Fourth of July, by Julia A Moore
• July 4th 1857, by Alfred Gibbs Campbell
• Ode for July 4th 1917, by H P Lovecraft
• Ode for the 4th of July, by James Monroe Whitfield
• Sonnet LVII - Summit of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838, by Henry Alford
• July 9th 1872, by Abram Joseph Ryan
• London in July, by Amy Levy
• St Martins Summer, by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Summer, by Alexander Pope
• L' Envoi (An Extract), by Rudyard Kipling
• Broadway, New York, July 1916, by George Sterling
• In This Summer, by Daniel Sheehan
• A July Afternoon by the Pond, by Walt Whitman
• On the Grasshopper and Cricket, by John Keats
• Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day (Sonnet 18), by William Shakespeare
• On My Son's Return Out of England, July 17th 1661, by Anne Bradstreet
• Sonnet, July 18th 1787, by William Lisle Bowles
• Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 18th 1666, by Anne Bradstreet
• Sonnet at Dover Cliffs, July 20th 1787, by William Lisle Bowles
• Summer Sun, by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Sonnet at Ostend, July 22nd 1787, by William Lisle Bowles
• Between the Dusk of Summer, by William Ernest Henley
• Summer Night, by Alfred Lord Tennyson
• The School Boy, by William Blake
• Answer July, by Emily Dickinson
• Written in July, by Samuel Rogers
• From My Diary, July 1914, by Wilfred Owen

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