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    The Poetry Of Trees
    The Poetry Of Trees
    The Poetry Of Trees
    Audiobook59 minutes

    The Poetry Of Trees

    Written by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Paul Dunbar and John Keats

    Narrated by Nigel Planer

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    About this audiobook

    The Poetry Of Trees. Although there is no definitive definition we all know what they are. At their most magisterial they can reach hundreds of feet into the air and be thousands of years old. But for many the visual structure they bring to our landscape in all their various heights and colours; their contribution to the seasons – stark branches, vivid leaves at birth and death is how we relate to them. For the poets here in this collection trees are a source of inspiration and give us much to contemplate.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Copyright Group
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9781783940172
    The Poetry Of Trees
    Author

    Alfred Lord Tennyson

    Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) was a British poet. Born into a middle-class family in Somersby, England, Tennyson began writing poems with his brothers as a teenager. In 1827, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, joining a secret society known as the Cambridge Apostles and publishing his first book of poems, a collection of juvenile verse written by Tennyson and his brother Charles. He was awarded the Chancellor’s Gold Medal in 1829 for his poem “Timbuktu” and, in 1830, published Poems Chiefly Lyrical, his debut individual collection. Following the death of his father in 1831, Tennyson withdrew from Cambridge to care for his family. His second volume of poems, The Lady of Shalott (1833), was a critical and commercial failure that put his career on hold for the next decade. That same year, Tennyson’s friend Arthur Hallam died from a stroke while on holiday in Vienna, an event that shook the young poet and formed the inspiration for his masterpiece, In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850). The poem, a long sequence of elegiac lyrics exploring themes of loss and mourning, helped secure Tennyson the position of Poet Laureate, to which he was appointed in 1850 following the death of William Wordsworth. Tennyson would hold the position until the end of his life, making his the longest tenure in British history. With most of his best work behind him, Tennyson continued to write and publish poems, many of which adhered to the requirements of his position by focusing on political and historical themes relevant to the British royal family and peerage. An important bridge between Romanticism and the Pre-Raphaelites, Tennyson remains one of Britain’s most popular and influential poets.

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    • 5/5
      A whole collection of pretty words singing praises about my favourite things? Yes, please! Each poem is a masterpiece and it made me so happy that I am indeed, a witch in the wood!

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    • 3/5
      I’m glad that many poets from the past have set their thoughts of trees to rhyme. Not a one stirred my heart however as much as is felt when I bask under trees myself. From this I surmise that it is challenging for even a great poet to capture the essence of a tree.

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    • 5/5
      A gorgeous collection of naturalistic poetry that’s both entertaining and soothing.

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    • 2/5
      The poems of course are great; the reading of them not so much.