Audiobooks by Jean Ingelow

Born in England – Exploring English Poetry - The East 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 our poems come from the East Midlands in the centre of England. Once a vast manufacturing hub whose industries invented, created and exported the future to the entire world. From its industry and grime came poets of the first rank including Alfred Lord Tennyson, D H Lawrence, Anne Bradstreet, John Dryden, John Clare and many others."

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Anna Seward, Anne Askew, Anne Bradstreet, D.H. Lawrence, Francis Beaumont, Henry Kirke White, Jane Barker, Jean Ingelow, Jessie Pope, John Beaumont, John Clare, John Dryden, John Skelton, John William Streets, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Leapor, Thomas Randolph, William Lisle Bowles (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Nigel Davenport, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic ? Travel

"'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 - Travel - An Introduction 2 - Departure by Edna St Vincent Millay 3 - I Go on Dreaming of Paths by Antonio Machado 4 - Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson 5 - I Travell'd Among Unknown Men by William Wordsworth 6 - In the Train and At Versailles by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 7 - The Night Journey by Rupert Brooke 8 - The Golden Journey to Samarkand by James Elroy Flecker 9 - Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling 10 - I Write of That Journey by Mirabai 11 - Sailing Beyond Seas by Jean Ingelow 12 - Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman 13 - The Journey by Tagore"

Antonio Machado, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edna St Vincent Millay, James Elroy Flecker, Jean Ingelow, Mirabai, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Rupert Brooke, Tagore, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth (Author), Eric Meyers, Ghizela Rowe, Shyama Perera (Narrator)

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Sea Stories (Unabridged)

"SEA STORIES, tells the entire tale. You will find excerpts of some of the most famous nautical stories of all time. Most of us have passed through a period of life during which we have ardently longed to be, if not actually a rover, a buccaneer, or a pirate, at least and really a sailor! To run away to sea has been the misdirected ambition of many a youngster, and some lads there are who have realized their desire to their sorrow. The boy who has not cherished in his heart and exhibited in his actions at sometime or other during his youthful days, a love of ships and salt water, is fit for-well, he is fit for the shore, and that is the worst thing a sailor could say about him! The virile nations, the strong peoples, are those whose countries border on the sea. They who go down to the great deep in ships are they who master the world. On the ocean as well as on the mountain top dwells the spirit of freedom. When men have struggled with each other in the shock of war, or the emulation of peace, when they have matched skill against skill, strength to strength, courage with courage, the higher quality of manhood in each instance has been required upon the sea; for there the sharp contention has been not only between man and man but between nature and man as well. A double portion of heroic spirit is needed to meet the double demand. That is the reason we love the sea. It is this Homeric spirit of the Ocean Masters that fills the dreams of youth and stirs the memories of old age. In these dreams and memories the veriest boy catches glimpses of the perpetual Titanic struggle of, and on, the deep; dimly discerning in his youthful way, a thousand generations of heroic achievement before, and through which, he begins to be; and he realizes that the ocean affords such a field for the exhibition of every high quality that goes to make a man as may be found nowhere else."

Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley, Charles Reade, Cyrus Townsend Brady, Daniel Defoe, Frank Thomas Bullen, Frederick Marryat, George Cupples, Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Jean Ingelow, Jean Rudolf Wyss, Michael Scott, Pierre Loti, R. J. Cleveland, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Robert Louis Stevenson, Victor Hugo, W.H.G. Kingston, William Clark Russell (Author), Ant Richards (Narrator)

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A Ship on Fire at Sea (Unabridged)

"Jean Ingelow (17 March 1820 - 20 July 1897) was an English poet and novelist, who gained sudden fame in 1863. She also wrote several stories for children. Ingelow followed this in 1851 with a story, 'Allerton and Dreux', but it was the publication of her Poems in 1863 that suddenly made her popular. It ran rapidly through numerous editions and was set to music, proving popular as domestic entertainment. The collection was said to have sold 200,000 copies. Her writings often focus on religious introspection. In 1867 she edited, with Dora Greenwell, The Story of Doom and other Poems, a poetry collection for children. A SHIP ON FIRE AT SEA: As she spoke two strange objects came into my view. One was a great pale moon, sickly and white, hanging and seeming to brood over the horizon; the other, which looked about the same size, was red and seemed to lie close at her side. It was not round, but looked blotted and blurred in the mist. Could it be a meteor?"

Jean Ingelow (Author), Ant Richards (Narrator)

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Mopsa The Fairy

"Jean Ingelow (1820 - 1897) was one of the more famous poets of the period, indeed many people suggested that she should succeed Alfred, Lord Tennyson as the first female Poet Laureate when he died in 1892. Mopsa the Fairy, written in 1869 is one of her more enduring stories. It is a delightful fantasy about a young boy who discovers a nest of young fairies and tells of their adventures together."

Jean Ingelow (Author), Noel Badrian (Narrator)

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