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    Halloween, A Theme In Verse
    Halloween, A Theme In Verse
    Halloween, A Theme In Verse
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    Halloween, A Theme In Verse

    By Thomas Hardy, John Dryden and Percy Bysshe Shelley

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    POEMS FOR HALLOWEEN – An Introduction. I should be whispering this because Halloween is almost upon us. A time of Witches, Ghouls and Hauntings and all kinds of scary things that come out the evening before All Saints Day to wreak….…… I’m glad you’re listening so let us begin- Many of us remember that feeling from childhood when an adult or even our friends would tell us scary stories of things that go bump in the night. It was a time to scare and be scared and no matter how terrifying the stories were it was a good feeling punctuated by yelps and laughs. Halloween is now firmly established in the Calendar as a favourite; to go trick or treating and an excuse for kids everywhere to dress up in outlandish attire and collect vast quantities of sweets. Equally adults everywhere are prone to switch off the lights and pretend to be out! In our collection the poems show that words have been used to enthral and suggest dark mysterious forces beyond our control for quite some time. With authors of the ability of Keats, Poe, Byron, Sheehan & Shakespeare, to nourish these primeval fears the poems have an unsettling nature as all bad things should! Many of these poems are also available on our audiobook version at iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9781780005164
    Halloween, A Theme In Verse
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    Thomas Hardy

    Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is best known for his novels, Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Return of the Native (1878), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895), which was denounced as morally objectionable. Hardy, disgusted with this reaction, declared he would never write fiction again and devoted the rest of his literary career to poetry.

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      Halloween, A Theme In Verse - Thomas Hardy

      The Poetry Of Halloween

      Poetry is a fascinating use of language.  With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries.  In this volume we look through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets to bring you a guide to the day – and night – of Halloween.

      A time of Witches, Ghouls and Hauntings and all kinds of scary things that come out the evening before All Saints Day. Many of us remember that feeling from childhood when an adult or even our friends would tell us scary stories of things that go bump in the night.  It was a time to scare and be scared and no matter how terrifying the stories were it was a good feeling punctuated by yelps and laughs.  

      Halloween is now firmly established in the Calendar as a favourite; to go trick or treating and an excuse for kids everywhere to dress up in outlandish attire and collect vast quantities of sweets.  Equally adults everywhere are prone to switch off the lights and pretend to be out!

      In our collection the poems show that words have been used to enthral and suggest dark mysterious forces beyond our control for quite some time. In fact all the way back to Celtic festivals and Christian rituals.

      With authors of the ability of Keats, Poe, Byron & Shakespeare, to nourish these primeval fears the poems have an unsettling nature as all bad things should!

      Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry.  Many samples are at our youtube channel   http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee   The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.  Among the readers are Gideon Wagner and Ghizela Rowe

      Index Of Poems

      The Dungeon by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

      A Clock Striking Midnight by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

      The Apparitions By William Butler Yeats

      Ah, Are You Digging My Grave by Thomas Hardy

      Luke Havegal by Edwin Arlington Robinson

      Windy Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson

      The Flying Dutchman by Edwin Arlington Robinson

      The Haunted Oak by Paul Laurence Dunbar

      A Gravestone by William Allingham

      The Erl-King by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

      The First Walpurgis-Night by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe An Extract

      The Foresaken by William Wordsworth

      The Eve Of St. Agnes by John Keats

      Ghosts in Love by Vachel Lindsay

      The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe

      A Witch’s Chant by James Hogg  - An extract

      Incantation To Oedipus by John Dryden

      The Witch Of The Atlas by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

      La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats

      The Curse Upon Edward by Thomas Gray

      Evil In Design by Emma Lazarus

      The Ghost Of Roger Casement by William Butler Yeats

      Phantom by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

      The Vampire by Charles Baudelaire

      The Only Ghost I Ever Saw by Emily Dickinson

      One Need Not Be A Chamber To Be Haunted by Emily Dickinson

      Witchcraft By A Picture by John Donne

      The Hag by Robert Herrick

      The Haunted House by Thomas Hood

      The Vampyre by Lord Byron

      Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley

      (Extract from) Macbeth by William Shakespeare

      The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

      The Dungeon by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

      And this place our forefathers made for man!

      This is the process of our Love and Wisdom,

      To each poor brother who offends against us

      Most innocent, perhaps--and what if guilty?

      Is this the only

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