A Day With Great Poets
Who was John Milton? The author of Paradise Lost you say? Well, certainly, but he was also a man, going about his daily life like any of us in 17th century England, (except that he was a genius of course). Take time to read about a day in his life and learn more about him and his likes, dislikes, background and proclivities. Also, the same with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walt Whitman, Lord Byron, Keats and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Each of them a man or woman of their times, living each day like us, but seeing shades and hues of life that we can only experience through their exquisite poetry. These are meant by the author to be brief biographies with examples of their works and some insights into their common foibles as humans in addition to human geniuses. If you love to read poetry, you will enjoy reading these short bios which contain much of their best poetry in them. The selections are from a number of stand alone sources but Browning is part of another book and the link below is to that directly. (Summary by phil chenevert)
Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography
Language: English
Section | Chapter | Author | Source | Reader | Time | Language |
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Play 01 | A Day With John Milton | May Gillington Byron | Etext | CaprishaPage |
00:42:41 | en |
Play 02 | A Day With Samuel Taylor Coleridge | May Gillington Byron | Etext | Bob Gonzalez |
00:47:37 | en |
Play 03 | A Day With Keats | May Gillington Byron | Etext | Bob Gonzalez |
00:46:28 | en |
Play 04 | A Day With Lord Byron | May Gillington Byron | Etext | Libby Gohn |
00:26:56 | en |
Play 05 | A Day With Walt Whitman | May Gillington Byron | Etext | Bob Gonzalez |
00:45:20 | en |
Play 06 | A Day With Elizabeth Barrett Browning | May Gillington Byron | Etext | Marie Hoffman |
00:48:39 | en |
Play 07 | A Day with Rossetti | May Gillington Byron | Etext | Lucretia B. |
01:01:55 | en |
Play 08 | A Day With William Morris | May Gillington Byron | Etext | Lucretia B. |
00:55:02 | en |
Play 09 | A Day with William Shakespeare | May Gillington Byron | Etext | Libby Gohn |
00:38:15 | en |
Play 10 | A Day with Tennyson | May Gillington Byron | Etext | ToddHW |
00:30:42 | en |
Play 11 | A Day with Robert Browning | May Gillington Byron | Etext | ToddHW |
00:35:53 | en |