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    Edith Nesbit, The Poetry Of: “There is no bond like having read and liked the same books.”
    Edith Nesbit, The Poetry Of: “There is no bond like having read and liked the same books.”
    Edith Nesbit, The Poetry Of: “There is no bond like having read and liked the same books.”
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    Edith Nesbit, The Poetry Of: “There is no bond like having read and liked the same books.”

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    Edith Nesbit, The Poetry – An Introduction. Edith Nesbit is more famously known as a writer of children’s stories and ghost stories some of which are available in other volumes. But in this volume we explore her poetry. Born in 1858 in Kennington, then part of Surrey and now London. Her early life was one of constant house changes before meeting, age 17, Hubert Bland who she was to marry three years later – whilst she was 7 months pregnant. Additionally Bland kept his affair with another woman going throughout. The two children of this relationship were raised by Edith as her own as well as their own three. They founded the Fabian Society in 1884. Thought of as the first modern writer for children she also wrote for adults producing over 50 books in total. Like many consummate writers who yearn to be recognised as poets their other works are given greater recognition. Now in this volume you be the judge. Many of these poems are also available on our audiobook version at iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.

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    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9781780005065
    Edith Nesbit, The Poetry Of: “There is no bond like having read and liked the same books.”
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    Edith Nesbit

    Edith Nesbit (1858–1924) lived in England and had dreamed of becoming a poet since she was fifteen years old. After her husband fell ill, it was up to her to support her small family. For the next nineteen years, she wrote novels, essays, articles, poems, and short stories; but it was not until 1899, when The Story of the Treasure Seekers was published, that she achieved great success. Her groundbreaking style of depicting realistic, believable children quickly gained a popularity that has lasted for more than a century.

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      Edith Nesbit, The Poetry Of - Edith Nesbit

      Edith Nesbit, The Poetry

      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 series we look at poets who at first thought summon other crafts to mind.  

      Edith Nesbit is more famously known as a writer of children’s stories and ghost stories (some of which are available in other book and audiobook volumes from ourselves).  But in this volume we explore her poetry.  Born in 1858 in Kennington, then part of Surrey and now London.  Her early life was one of constant house changes before meeting, age 17, Hubert Bland who she was to marry three years later – whilst she was 7 months pregnant.  Additionally Bland kept his affair with another woman going throughout.  The two children of this relationship were raised by Edith as her own as well as their own three.  They founded the Fabian Society in 1884.  Thought of as the first modern writer for children she also wrote for adults producing over 50 books in total.  Like many consummate writers who yearn to be recognised as poets their other works are given greater recognition.  Now in this volume you be the judge.

      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 Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

      Index Of Poems

      The Beatific Vision

      The Day Of Judgment

      St. Valentine's Day

      The Will To Live

      The Touchstone

      Wedding Day

      The Way Of Love

      Winter

      To A Child

      White Magic

      Work

      Windflowers

      The Temptation

      The Things That Matter

      To Her: In Time Of War

      Values

      The Tree Of Knowledge

      True Love And New Love

      Sea-Shells

      Surrender

      Silence

      The Prodigal Son

      Renunciation

      Prayer In Time Of War

      May Song

      May Day

      Love And Life

      A Parting

      The Maiden's Prayer

      The Last Defeat

      In Trouble

      The Last Betrayal

      Hop Picking

      The Destroyer

      In Hospital

      The Enchanted Garden

      In Age

      Death

      After Death

      The Confession

      Accession

      Before Winter

      And The Rains Descended And The Floods Came

      The December Rose

      Despair

      The Egoists

      Faith

      Fear

      The Fire

      The Gift Of Life

      Hope

      Gratitude

      Magic

      The Eternal

      The Old Magic

      Philosophy

      Possession

      The Prodigal's Return

      A Farewell

      The Beatific Vision

      OH God! if I do my duty

      And walk in the thorny way,

      Will you pay me with heavens of beauty,

      Millions of lives away?

      Will you give me the music of heaven,

      And the joy that none understands,

      In place of what life would have given

      If I had held out my hands?

      I have lived in a narrow prison,

      I have writhed 'neath a bitter creed,

      And I dare to say that no heaven can pay

      The renounced dream and deed,

      But

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