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Summary

Writing poetry always seems to be something we learn at school, usually beginning with a couplet of child-like rhyme that brings gales of laughter.  Later it may be agonising over a verse or two attempting to rhapsodise on love and then the years roll on with only an occasional desire to return.   
 
In this volume we put together wordsmiths of the highest caliber as they write on Poets themselves.  Many of the poems provide valuable insights on how other poets are seen by their peers.  Some are deeply personal others are abstract.  Whether they speak at the celebration of a birth or the knowing tragedy of entering a slaughterous battle these poets take us into new uncharted territories revealing their inner selves in raw and tender ways. 
 
Yeats, Flecker, Benet, Yeats, Dickinson, Coleridge, Millay, Levy, Gurney are but a few of their number who speak with the clarity, the eloquence and the truth that only a poet can know….but all can share. 
 
01 - Poets on Poets - An Introduction 
02 - A Caution to Poets by Matthew Arnold 
03 - To a Poet by Emily Hickey 
04 - To a Poet by Alice Meynell 
05 - To a Poet by Claude McKay 
06 - To Poets by Charles Sorley 
07 - The Poet by Aleksandr Pushkin 
08 - The Poet by Radclyffe Hall 
09 - The Poet by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
10 - The Poet to Nature by Alice Meynell 
11 - Sonnet VII - Sweet Poet of the Woods by Charlotte Smith 
12 - To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time by Countee Cullen 
13 - False Poets and True (To Wordsworth) by Thomas Hood 
14 - On Dryden by Christopher Caudwell 
15 - On Poet-Ape by Ben Jonson 
16 - On the Morals of Poets by Richard Le Gallienne 
17 - The Poets by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
18 - The Toast by Ernest Rhys 
19 - A Minor Poet by Stephen Vincent Benet 
20 - To Alex Smith, the Glasgow Poet by George Meredith 
21 - The Peasant Poet by John Clare 
22 - London Poets by Amy Levy 
23 - Negro Poets by Charles Bertram Johnson 
24 - A Poet's Hope by Ambrose Bierce 
25 - The Poet's Portion by Thomas Hood 
26 - Poets by Khalil Gibran 
27 - The Poet's Apology by Aristophanes 
28 - A Tale of the Miser and His Poet by Anne Kingsmill Finch 
29 - The Poet, the Oyster and Sensitive Plant by William Cowper 
30 - The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad by Robert Herrick 
31 - Besides The Autumn Poets Sing by Emily Dickinson 
32 - A Poet of One Mood by Alice Meynell 
33 - Fancy in Nubibus or The Poet in the Clouds  by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
34 - The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers by W B Yeats 
35 - Singers To Come by Alice Meynell 
36 - To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker 
37 - The Young Poet by James Elroy Flecker 
38 - Portrait of the Author by William Carlos Williams 
39 - The Modern Poet - A Song of Derivations by Alice Meynell 
40 - The Poet to His Childhood by Alice Meynell 
37 - A Poet's Father by Ambrose Bierce 
42 - A Poet's Welcome To His Love Begotten Daughter by Robert Burns 
43 - A Poet to His Baby Son by James Weldon Johnson 
44 - Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
45 - The Martyr Poets - Did Not Tell by Emily Dickinson 
46 - Trench Poets by Edgell Rickword 
47 - England's Poet by Laurence Binyon 
48 - A Poet Unknown by Ernest Rhys 
49 - To the Poet Before Battle by Ivor Gurney 
50 - The Poets Are Waiting by Harold Munro 
51 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge 
52 - The Poet's Knowledge by Raymond Chandler 
53 - These Things That Poets Said by Edward Thomas 
54 - This Was A Poet - It Is That by Emily Dickinson 
55 - The Old Poet by Amy Levy 
56 - The Old Poet by James Elroy Flecker 
57 - The

Duration: about 2 hours (01:44:32)
Publishing date: 2022-08-08; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

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