Audiobooks by William Wordsworth

The Power of Poetry - Poems for Inner Peace

"Life is frenetic. Everything is running faster which usually means we are running later. Everything should have been done 5 minutes ago or better still yesterday. We are slowly falling behind, overwhelmed by busy lives in an ever-exacting world.In these more modern times, time is everything. There’s never enough of it.So how do we slow down and become more comfortable with our lives, how do we find a balance? Life shouldn’t just be one task after another. Yes, a good life has to be worked for, found time for, but life should also be enjoyed and savoured.One answer may lie in the past. Classic poets down the decades and centuries have wisely observed that there are many things, both great and small, that bring a sense of stillness, an aura of calm, a chance to re-engage with our feelings and emotions purely by taking time for moments that matter. With verse and poems from the likes of William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Mirabai, Tagore, Rumi and the calming balms of many others that soothe the soul and bring the inner peace we all need."

William Wordsworth (Author), Gideon Wagner (Narrator)

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Tintern Abbey

"William Wordsworth was born on 7 April, 1770 in Cockermouth, in Cumbria, northwest England. Wordsworth spent his early years in his beloved Lake District often with his sister, Dorothy. The English lakes could terrify as well as nurture, and as Wordsworth would write “I grew up fostered alike by beauty and by fear,”After being schooled at Hawkshead he went to St. John’s College, Cambridge but not liking the competitive nature of the place idled his way through saying he “was not for that hour, nor for that place.” Whilst still at Cambridge he travelled to France. He was immediately taken by the Revolutionary fervor and the confluence of a set of great ideals and rallying calls for the people of France.In his early twenties he ventured again to France and fathered an illegitimate child. He would not see that daughter till she was 9 owing to the tensions and hostilities between England and France.There now followed a period of three to four years that plagued Wordsworth with doubt. He was now in his early thirties but had no profession, was rootless and virtually penniless. Although his career was not on track he did manage to publish two volumes, both in 1793; An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches.This dark period ended in 1795. A legacy of £900 received from Raisley Calvert enabled Wordsworth to pursue a literary career in earnest. In 1797 he became great friends with a fellow poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. They formed a partnership that would change both their lives and the course of English poetry.Their aim was for a decisive break with the strictures of Neoclassical verse. In 1798 the ground breaking Lyrical Ballads was published. Wordsworth wrote in the preface “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” Most of the poems were dramatic in form, designed to reveal the character of the speaker. Thus the poems set forth a new style, a new vocabulary, and new subjects for poetry.Coleridge had also conceived of an enormous poem to be called “The Brook,” in which he proposed to treat all science, philosophy, and religion, but soon laid the burden of writing it to Wordsworth. To test his powers for that endeavour, Wordsworth began writing the autobiographical poem that would absorb him for the next 40 years, and which was eventually published as The Prelude, or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind. By the 1820s, the critical acclaim for Wordsworth was growing, but perhaps his best years of work were behind him. Nonetheless he continued to write and to revise previous works. With the death is 1843 of his friend and Poet Laureate Robert Southey, Wordsworth was offered the position. He accepted despite saying he wouldn’t write any poetry as Poet Laureate. And indeed he didn’t.Wordsworth died of pleurisy on 23 April 1850. He was buried in St Oswald’s church Grasmere."

William Wordsworth (Author), Gideon Wagner (Narrator)

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Born in England – Exploring English Poetry - The North-West

"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 a part of the country that seems to be tucked away yet brims with talent. It’s cities such as Manchester and Liverpool are world-famous for their being industrial powerhouses and creative hot-spots."

Arthur Hugh Clough, Dorothy Wordsworth, Francis Thompson, John Oxenham, Laurence Binyon, Lewis Carroll, Richard Le Gallienne, Susanna Blamire, William Wordsworth (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Nigel Planer, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Born in England – Exploring English Poetry - Cambridge University

"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 poets of Cambridge. A small city, with its famed university, with an enviable historical grandeur and roll-call of poets who dazzle, humble and inspire us all in ways that only a poet can. Our poets include Christopher Marlowe, Lord Byron, Rupert Brooke, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Donne and the talents of very many others."

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Andrew Marvell, Charles Kingsley, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, John Dryden, Lord Byron, Robert Herrick, Rupert Brooke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Siegfried Sassoon, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Wordsworth (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley, Sean Barrett (Narrator)

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Poems of Sentiment and Reflection

"William Wordsworth belonged to a chosen band of poets for whom poetry was a priesthood, displayed in his unerring devotion to his art. He nourished his unique poetic gift by daily intimacy with Nature. It is Wordworth’s peculiar achievement to reveal the impulses at work behind the outward beauty of Nature, and to manifest its sustaining influence upon the spirit of man. The forty-one poems in this collection cover a range of subjects but all reflect Wordsworth’s fundamental philosophy that poetry should be the embodiment of emotion recollected in tranquility."

William Wordsworth (Author), Denis Daly (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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A Rhyme A Dozen - England

"'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 - England - An Introduction 2 - Jerusalem by William Blake 3 - Home Thoughts From Abroad by Robert Browning 4 - The Lambs of Grassmere by Christina Georgina Rossetti 5 - Happy Is England by John Keats 6 - This England (from Richard II) by William Shakespeare 7 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth 8 - Lines Written Beneath An Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow On The Hill Sept 2nd 1807 by George Gordon Byron 9 - Beachey Head by Charlotte Smith 10 - A Shropshire Lad XXXI - On Wenlock Edge the Wood's in Trouble by A E Housman 11 - London After The Great Fire 1666 by John Dryden 12 - The Lament of Swordy Well by John Clare 13 - A Song - Men of England by Percy Bysshe Shelley"

A E Housman, Charlotte Smith, Christina Georgina Rossetti, John Clare, John Dryden, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, William Blake, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth (Author), Eve Karpf, Jake Urry (Narrator)

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Miscellaneous Sonnets

"William Wordsworth composed hundreds of sonnets, among which are some of his best-known poems. The sonnet form particularly suited Wordsworth, enabling the poet to encapsulate the beauties of mundane life in language of appealing directness and simplicity. This recording contains 122 poems, ranging across many decades of Wordsworth’s writing career."

William Wordsworth (Author), Denis Daly (Narrator)

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A Rhyme A Dozen - Evenings

"‘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.01 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Evenings- An Introduction02 - Evening Star by Edgar Allan Poe03 - It Is A Beauteous Evening by William Wordsworth04 - Evening by Paul Laurence Dunbar05 - Sweet Evenings Come and Go Love by George Eliot06 - Evening Song by Willa Cather07 - How The Old Mountains Drip with Sunset by Emily Dickinson08 - Summer Evening by John Clare09 - Bright Star by John Keats10 - Evening in England by Francis Ledwidge11 - Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening by Charlotte Smith12 - Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child by Katherine Mansfield13 - An Hymn to the Evening by Phyllis Wheatley"

George Eliot, William Wordsworth (Author), Elliot Fitzpatrick, Ghizela Rowe (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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Wordsworth Poems

"William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850. (Ack.Wikipedia) This audiobook has the following poems rendered by Dr.N.Ramani, a Professor in English and a well known academician from India. A Complaint Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 Dion Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg I Travelled among Unknown Men I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free It is not to be Thought of Laodamia Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, London, 1802 Michael: A Pastoral Poem Most Sweet it is Mutability November, 1806 Nutting October, 1803 Ode to Duty Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic Resolution and Independence Scorn not the Sonnet September, 1819 She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman The Solitary Reaper Song at the Feast of Brougham Sonnets from The River Duddon: After-Thought The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement The Prelude: Book 1: Childhood and School-time The Prelude: Book 2: School-time (Continued) The Primrose of the Rock The Reverie of Poor Susan The Simplon Pass The Tables Turned To a Highland Girl To a Skylark To the Cuckoo AND OTHHER POEMS"

William Wordsworth (Author), Ramani (Narrator)

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Fifty Shades of March

"The third month of our Gregorian calendar. Spring begins to delicately change the land. Colour and light begin their inexorable march to bathe the landscape around us. Temperatures subtly begin to rise, nature welcomes warmth. 50 poems from the pens of our remarkable poets including Yeats, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Housman, Lowell and a plethora of others come lines and verse on the wonder of the landscape, its fauna and wildlife that amplify our moods, feelings, thoughts and desires on this month of March.1 - Fifty Shades of March - An Introduction2 - March - An Ode by Algernon Charles Swinburne3 - To My Sister by Wiliam Wordsworth4 - March by A E Housman5 - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth6 - To Daffodils by Robert Herrick7 - A Shropshire Lad XXIX - The Lent Lilly by A E Housman8 - To a Daisy Found Blooming March 7th by John Hartley9 - Extract of Spring Day by Amy Lowell10 - The Year's at the Spring by Robert Browning11 - March Written by William Morris12 - Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth13 - Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins14 - Very Early Spring by Katherine Mansfield15 - In March by Archibald Lampman16 - An Extract of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow17 - The Life of Love - Spring by Khalil Gibran18 - Again Comes the Spring by Hafiz19 - Written in March by William Wordsworth20 - Sonnet XLIII. The Malvern Hills, March 12th 1835 by Henry Alford21 - Monadnock in Early Spring by Amy Lowell22 - Stella's Birthday, March 13th 1727 by Jonathan Swift23 - To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time by Countee Cullen24 - March by John Payne25 - A Light Exists in Spring by Emily Dickinson26 - A March Minstrel by Alfred Austin27 - A Little Madness in the Spring by Emily Dickinson28 - Spring by William Morris29 - To March by Emily Dickinson30 - Spring's Bedfellow by William Morris31 - Spring Rain by Sara Teasdale32 - Spring Showers by James Thomson33 - A March Snow by Ella Wheeler Wilcox34 - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone by Walt Whitman35 - Slow Spring by Katharine Tynan36 - To Spring by William Blake37 - Spring 1916 by Isaac Rosenberg38 - Spring by Alfred Lord Tennyson39 - A Twilight in Middle March by Francis Ledwidge40 - The Spring by Thomas Carew41 - March Evening by Amy Lowell42 - In the Green and Gallant Spring by Robert Louis Stevenson43 - A March Day in London by Amy Levy44 - Written In London on 19th March, 1796 by Matilda Betham45 - Letter From Town; on a Grey Morning in March by D H Lawrence46 - Spring Wind in London by Katherine Mansfield47 - The Message of the March Wind by William Morris48 - Three Songs of Shattering by Edna St Vincent Millay49 - My Little March Girl by Paul Laurence Dunbar50 - These, I, Singing in Spring by Walt Whitman51 - The Shepherd's Calendar - March by John Clare"

Emily Dickinson, William Wordsworth (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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