A Day With Great Poets


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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) (7 hr 59 min)

Chapters

A Day With John Milton 42:41 Read by CaprishaPage
A Day With Samuel Taylor Coleridge 47:37 Read by Bob Gonzalez
A Day With Keats 46:28 Read by Bob Gonzalez
A Day With Lord Byron 26:56 Read by Libby Gohn
A Day With Walt Whitman 45:20 Read by Bob Gonzalez
A Day With Elizabeth Barrett Browning 48:39 Read by Marie Hoffman
A Day with Rossetti 1:01:55 Read by Lucretia B.
A Day With William Morris 55:02 Read by Lucretia B.
A Day with William Shakespeare 38:15 Read by Libby Gohn
A Day with Tennyson 30:42 Read by ToddHW
A Day with Robert Browning 35:53 Read by ToddHW