Audiobooks by A. E. Housman

Born in England – Exploring English Poetry - The West Midlands

"Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy.In the volumes of this series, we take a look at poetry through the prism of individual regions of England, or sometimes more quaintly known as ‘Albion’, or ‘Blighty’, through the centuries of its gloried history.England, despite its perception of reserve and under-statement has, in reality, strode the global stage at various time in many things, both good and bad, from Empire to long distance running. Here our focus in on its literature. Famed for its fiction and dramas, it is equally admired for its plethora of gifted poets and the dazzling verse which has added so much to its artistic legacy. These classic poets are wonders of their age and of their art. Genius is written in their names.In this volume we explore the West Midlands, land-locked, yet containing its second largest city, it is a cornucopia of landscapes and contrasts that make it distinct and yet a part of the whole. And whether the poets are famous or obscure their talents remind us all of our inheritance of words."

A. E. Housman, Alfred Noyes, Allen Upward, George Eliot, Henry Newbolt, Lord Alfred Douglas, Michael Drayton, Owen Seamen, Rupert Brooke, Thomas Traherne, Wilfred Owen (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley, Robert Maskell (Narrator)

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A Rhyme A Dozen - Unrequited Love

"'A dime a dozen' as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English 'cheap as chips' but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit 'A Rhyme a Dozen' as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Unrequited Love - An Introduction 2 - Because I Liked You by A E Housman 3 - Sonnet 87 - Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear For My Possessing by William Shakespeare 4 - No One So Much As You by Edward Thomas 5 - No Platonic Love by William Cartwright 6 - Sonnets On Miss Savage by Samuel Butler 7 - I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling 8 - Heart We Will Forget Him by Emily Dickinson 9 - The Spring by Thomas Carew 10 - The Forsaken Lover Consoleth Himself With Rememberance of Past Happiness by Sir Thomas Wyatt 11 - The Given Heart by Abraham Cowley 12 - Longing by Matthew Arnold 13 - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe"

A. E. Housman, Abraham Cowley, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Thomas, Emily Dickinson, Matthew Arnold, Samuel Butler, Sir John Suckling, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Carew, William Cartwright, William Shakespeare (Author), Marcus D'amico, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Power of Poetry - Poems To Mend A Broken Heart

"1 - The Power of Poetry - Poems to Mend a Broken Heart - An Introduction2 - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe3 - Loves Lies Bleeding by Algernon Charles Swinburne4 - I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling5 - Ebb by Edna St Vincent Millay6 - Heart We Will Forget Him by Emily Dickinson-7 - My Own Heart|And Where|And Why by Edna St Vincent Millay28 - Renouncement by Alice Meynell29 - A Shropshire Lad XXXIII - If Truth in Hearts That Perish by A.E. Housman30 - The Forsaken Lover Consoleth Himself With Rememberance of Past Happiness by Sir Thomas Wyatt31 - Sonnet 139 - O! Call Not Me to Justify the Wrong by William Shakespeare32 - Love and Folly by Charlotte Smith33 - No One So Much As You by Edward Thomas34 - My Heart Cries by Kabir35 - Sonnet 87 - Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear for My Possessing by William Shakespeare36 - Love's Farewell by Michael Drayton37 - When We Two Parted by Lord Byron38 - We Parted in Silence by Isabella Valancy Crawford39 - February by Edith Nesbit40 - The Given Heart by Abraham Cowley41 - Jilted by Radclyffe Hall42 - Jealously by Rupert Brooke43 - Jealously by Radclyffe Hall44 - Spring Morning by A. E. Housman45 - To His Forsaken Mistress by Sir Robert Ayton46 - Love and Hate by Elizabeth Siddal47 - Amour XXX Three Sorts of Serpents Do Resemble Thee by Michael Drayton48 - Revenge by Letitia Elizabeth Landon49 - Modern Love - II by George Meredith50 - Divorce by Anna Wickham51 - Modern Love - I by George Meredith52 - Dead Love by Elizabeth Siddal53 - He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead by W B Yeats54 - Sailing Beyond Seas by Jean Ingelow55 - If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart by Thomas Lovell Beddoes56 - Dead Men's Love by Rupert Brooke57 - The Doleful Lay of Clorinda by Mary Sidney|Countess of Pembroke58 - The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by T S Eliot|Have Pity by Gerard Manley Hopkins8 - They Flee From Me by Sir Thomas Wyatt9 - The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by John Bodenham10 - Love Arm'd by Aphra Behn11 - A Shropshire Lad LIV - With Rue My Heart is Laden by A.E. Housman12 - A Poor Torn Heart|Let Me Have More|a Tattered Heart by Emily Dickinson13 - Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Proctor14 - A Careless Heart by Isaac Rosenberg15 - My Heart is Lame by Charlotte Mew16 - A Fallen Leaf by Ella Wheeler Wilcox17 - Helas! by Oscar Wilde18 - A Pause of Thought by Christina Georgina Rossetti19 - A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy20 - The Last Betrayal by Edith Nesbit21 - Greater Love by Wilfred Owen22 - In the Tavern of My Heart by Willa Cather23 - Hearts First Word I by Isaac Rosenberg24 - I Have Loved Flowers That Fade by Robert Seymour Bridges25 - I So Like Spring by Charlotte Mew26 - May by Sara Teasdale27 - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed"

A. E. Housman, Alice Meynell, Aphra Behn, Charlotte Smith, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Nesbit, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Emily Dickinson, Kabir, Michael Drayton, Robert Seymour Bridges, Rupert Brooke, T S Eliot, William Shakespeare (Author), Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Poems for Middle and High School Students

A. E. Housman, Alfred Tennyson, Claude McKay, D.H. Lawrence, Douglas Malloch, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna ST. Vincent Millay, Edward Dyer, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Elizabeth Barrette Browning, Emily Dickinson, Emily Jane Brontë, Emma Lazarus, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, George Orwell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jack London, John Keats, John McCrae, Joyce Kilmer, Julia Ward Howe, Kate Chopin, Lewis Carroll, Lord Byron, Louisa May Alcott, Mary Howitt, Oscar Wilde, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Sara Teasdale, Stephen Crane, Thomas Hardy, Vincent Millay, Walt Whitman, William Blake, William Butler Yeats, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth (Author), Connie Dangel, Martin Siemienski (Narrator)

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A Rhyme A Dozen - Trees

"'A dime a dozen' as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English 'cheap as chips' but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit 'A Rhyme a Dozen' as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.1 - A Rhyme a Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems - 1 Topic. Trees - An Introduction2 - The Forest Road by Charlotte Mew3 - The Forest Path by Lucy Maud Montgomery4 - In the Forest by Sarojini Naidu5 - In the Black Forest by Amy Levy6 - Loveliest of Trees, The Cherry Now by A E Housman7 - Song 30 - On This Tree is a Bird by Kabir8 - The Fir Tree and the Brook by Helen Hunt Jackson9 - The Hawthorn Tree by Willa Cather10 - Pine-Trees And The Sky by Rupert Brooke11 - The Oak by Alfred Lord Tennyson12 - To the Willow Tree by Robert Herrick13 - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone by Walt Whitman"

A. E. Housman, Charlotte Mew (Author), Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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A Rhyme A Dozen - The Stars

"'A dime a dozen' as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English 'cheap as chips' but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit 'A Rhyme a Dozen' as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - The Stars - An Introduction2 - Bright Star by John Keats3 - Sonnet 14 - Not From the Stars Do I My Judgement Pluck by William Shakespeare4 - Falling Stars by Rainer Maria Rilke5 - Stars by A E Housman6 - Evening Star by Edgar Allan Poe7 - From Sunset to Star Rise by Christina Georgina Rossetti8 - Stars by Sara Teasdale9 - The Light of Stars by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow10 - Places Among the Stars by Stephen Crane11 - Star of Ethiopia by Lucian B Watkins12 - When the Shy Star Goes Forth in Heaven by James Joyce13 - Hymn To The North Star by William Cullen Bryant"

A. E. Housman, John Keats (Author), Alex Jennings (Narrator)

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Fifty Shades of the British Landscape

"Over many centuries poets have drawn inspiration and solace from the land that surrounds us. From mountain high to valley floor from sea cliffs to sandy shore through wood and field, across rivers, brooks and streams through sunlight, raging storms and the cloak of night these shores have some of the most beautiful natural treasures to be found anywhere.Our poets including William Wordsworth, Robert Bridges and A E Houseman to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Radclyffe Hall and Emily Bronte with mere words help convey the splendour of this British Landscape in fifty classic poems."

A. E. Housman, Radclyffe Hall, William Wordsworth (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Fifty Shades of November

"With the talents on display the most difficult task is choosing only ten. Their virtuosity, their craft and ambition scare belie the difficulties that society places upon most women. Their words cannot be denied, their literary heritage is safe forever. 1 - The Top Ten - 19th Century British Women 2 - The Indian Orphan by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 3 - The Mourner by Mary Shelley 4 - Napolean and the Spectre by Charlotte Bronte 5 - The Lifted Veil by George Eliot 6 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards 7 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy 8 - A Story of a Wedding Tour 9 - Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy 10 - Passed by Charlotte Mew 11 - The Old Nurses Story by Elizabeth Gaskell"

A. E. Housman, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Comic and Curious Verse

"William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. A collection of the funny, curious verse written during the 19th and 20th centuries, read by some of Britain's most renowned actors. Humorous and whimsical verse are collated together in these timeless readings of poetry from our funniest writers. Performed by Sir John Gielgud; Imogen Stubbs; Tim Pigott-Smith; Peter Orr; Wendy Hillier. This collection includes poems from: • A.E. Housman • Benjamin Franklin King • J.K. Stephen • A.C. Swinburne • Lewis Carroll • Thomas Hardy • W.S. Gilbert • Edward Lear • William McGonagall • A.H. Clough • Robert Barnabas Brough • Thomas Grey • Lord Byron • Walter Raleigh • Oliver Goldsmith • George Canning • John Dryden • Samuel C. Boston • H.C. Beeching • C.S. Calverley • William Walsh • W.M. Thackeray • George Coleman • Hartley Coleridge • Charles Cros • George Du Maurier • W.R. Mardale • Matthew Prior • Earl Of Rochester • Thomas Love Peacock • Thomas Hood • Harry Graham"

A. E. Housman, A.C. Swinburne, A.H. Clough, Benjamin Franklin King, Edward Lear, J.K. Stephen, Lewis Carroll, Lord Byron, Thomas Hardy, W. S. Gilbert, Walter Raleigh, Wendy Hillier, William McGonagall (Author), Imogen Stubbs, Sir John Gielgud, Tim Pigott-Smith (Narrator)

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The Poetry of A. E. Housman

"Alfred Edward Housman was born on 26 March 1859 in a small village near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, the eldest of seven children. His mother died when he was 12 and his father remarried. Despite a good formal education where he won prizes for his poetry and a scholarship to Oxford, Houseman failed to get his degree in Classics. Various reasons have been suggested for this; over confidence, a lack of interest in philosophy or the rejection by one of his roommates who was the love of his life but heterosexual.Housman himself documented his homosexuality and love of this roommate in a letter to the British Library that he specified be opened 25 years after it was sent. Housman independently pursued studying the Greek classicists in particular and published many scholarly articles on their work which were well regarded. This resulted in his taking a position as a Professor of Latin at University College London in 1892 and later at Trinity College Cambridge.Whilst his reputation as a classical scholar grew and remains relevant to this day, his poetry took longer to be recognised. His 63 poems forming the Shropshire Lad was self published as publishers rejected the work but although it sold slowly it chimed well with Victorian and Edwardian sensibilities and became a lasting success helped by striking a chord with musicians who were inspired by his words. Housman continued to write lyrical poetry that evokes the distinct imagery of the English countryside as well as powerfully questioning our mortality and although linked to the era his poetry is still widely quoted and remains relevant as this volume clearly demonstrates. A.E. Housman as he became known died on 30th April, 1936 aged 77 and his ashes are buried in Shropshire. This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing. Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations."

A. E. Housman (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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A.E. Housman - A Shropshire Lad

"This now seminal collection of sixty-three poems was originally self-published by Housman in 1896 after rejections from publishers. None saw its potential.Housman, it is said, originally wanted to name the book, The Poems of Terence Hearsay, referring to a character within, but changed the title to A Shropshire Lad at the suggestion of a colleague.The poems were mainly written in 1895 whilst Housman was living in Byron Cottage in Highgate. The book sold slowly. The initial print run of 500 took two years to sell through. However by 1911 annual sales were in the order of 13,500 copies and, during World War I, the book accompanied many young men into the trenches.It thereafter became a cultural icon, remembering a gentler time, a better time.Housman did confess that much of what he had written about, especially in terms of terrain and geography was assumed rather than known. But such poetic licence is easily set aside when the finished work is read and admired.As George Orwell later remembered, "these were the poems which I and my contemporaries used to recite to ourselves, over and over, in a kind of ecstasy"."

A. E. Housman (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Jake Urry, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Poetry of the Moon & Stars

"The sun has descended below the far horizon. The inky blackness of night begins to envelop the land. Day has gone and the nocturnal times reveal themselves. But above the dark blanket the moon, whether waxing or waning, stands sentry and around it vast clouds and swirls of stars regiment themselves. We look up in awe and wonder, frail beneath their vista.Our gloried poets are on hand though to capture word and deed, emotion and feeling, friend and foe. Among our ranks of astounding talents are Keats, Byron, Wordsworth, Hardy, Poe, Shelley, Longfellow and many more beside. Their descriptions capture what they see and feel and describe as perhaps only a poet can. This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing. Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations."

A. E. Housman, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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