The Poetry of January

A Month in Verse

De: George Gordon Byron, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cowper, Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy

Narrado por: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe

January - the first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar ushers in the New Year. the cold and bleak landscape of winter nevertheless provides a rich background for our esteemed poets, such as Byron, Longfellow, Cowper, and Dickinson, to offer us their reflections and counterpoints.

The tracks are:

• January - An introduction
• January 1 1828, by Nathaniel Parker Willis
• Written January the 1st, 1792, by Janet Little
• Written January 1st 1832, by Henry Alford
• Promises That Fail Their Makers Lips, by Daniel Sheehan
• The Old Year, by John Clare
• At the Entering of the New Year, by Thomas Hardy
• Written During an Aurora Borealis, January 7th 1831, by Henry Alford
• The Meeting, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• A Sonnet Occasioned... January 1616, by William Drummond
• January 1795, by Mary Darby Robinson
• A Tale Founded on a Fact Which Happened in January 1779, by William Cowper
• The First Snowfall, by James Russell Lowell
• Arm the First Rifle Ballad, January 1852, by Martin Farquhar Tupper
• On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis, January 14th 1807, by Joel Barlow
• A Calendar of Sonnets - January, by Helen Hunt Jackson
• Eden in Winter, by Vachel Lindsay
• It Is Winter, by Daniel Sheehan
• Sonnet 59, by Henry Alford
• Snow Flakes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Work Without Hope, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Snow Beneath Who's Chilly Softness, by Emily Dickinson
• GH on My Thirty-third Birthday, January 22nd 1821, by Lord Byron
• January Cold Desolate, by Christina Georgina Rossetti
• The Farm Woman's Winter, by Thomas Hardy
• The Winters Are So Short by Emily Dickinson
• A Song for January 26th 1824, by Charles Thompson
• Ode on the Present Time, 27th January 1795, by Amelia Opie
• Winter - My Secret, by Christina Georgina Rossetti
• Month of January, by Hilaire Belloc
• Pray to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong, by Henry David Thoreau
• January, by Alice Carey.

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