A Day With Great Poets
May Gillington Byron
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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 |