The eleventh month of the Gregorian year brings the change from Autumn into Winter. Landscapes are scrubbed of colour and all their frills, the statued forms of trees are the grammar, the structure of her ways. Days shorten, nights lengthen and for our classic poets there is work to be done.
Across fifty poems our classic poets including Matthew Arnold, Thomas Hardy, Herman Melville, Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Alice Guerin Crist illuminate the month, the natural world and the human condition. In their words our experiences are reshaped, our views are rethought and our place in the world made a little more sense of.
1 - Fifty Shades of November - An Introduction
2 - November by John Clare
3 - November Findings, November 1862 by Janet Hamilton
4 - November by William Cullen Bryant
5 - To a Mouse by Robert Burns
6 - To a Robin in November by William Wilfred Campbell
7 - The TWA Corbies by Anonymous
8 - Bird's Nests by Edward Thomas
9 - We Plough the Fields and Scatter by Mattias Claudius
10 - A Hymn on the Seasons (An Extract) by James Thomson
11 - A Shropshire Lad XXVII - Is My Team Ploughing by A E Housman
12 - At Day Close in November by Thomas Hardy
13 - A November Night by Sara Teasdale
14 - In November by Archibald Lampman
15 - Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rossetti
16 - Autumn Song by Katherine Mansfield
17 - November Song by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
18 - Love in Autumn by Sara Teasdale
19 - The Wind's Lament by John Morris-Jones
20 - By the Hearth by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
21 - A Calender of Sonnets - November by Helen Hunt Jackson
22 - November Blind by Phillip Henry Savage
23 - In This Fog by Daniel Sheehan
24 - November by Thomas Hood
25 - Among the Rocks by Robert Browning
26 - November by John Payne
27 - Mild the Mist Upon the Hill by Emily Bronte
28 - The Storm by George Herbert
29 - Pray To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David Thoreau
30 - November by Amy Lowell
31 - Frost At Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
32 - Dupont's Round Fight (November 1861) by Herman Melville
33 - A Thanksgiving Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar
34 - In November by Phillip Henry Savage
35 - November Days in Ireland by Alice Guerin Crist
36 - November 1806 by William Wordsworth
37 - A Shropshire Lad XXXVIII - The Winds Out of the West Land Blow by A E Housman
38 - November 1847 by Henry Alford
39 - Sonnet 73 - That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold by William Shakespeare
40 - The Going of the Battery (Wives Lament November the 2nd 1899) by Thomas Hardy
41 - The Melancholy Year is Dead with Rain by Trumbell Stickney
42 - A November Note by Alfred Austin
43 - November by Lucy Hamilton Hooper
44 - November 1813 by William Wordsworth
45 - A Thought on Death, November 1814 by Anna Laetitia Barbauld
46 - On the Death of Princess Borghese, at Rome, November 1840 by Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton
47 - Paris. November the 11th, 1918 by Mary Wedderburn Cannan
48 - In Memoriam by Ewart Alan Mackintosh (Killed in Action 21st November 1917, Aged 24)
49 - November by John Keble
50 - For the Fallen by Lawrence Binyon
51 - Rugby Chapel, November 1857 by Matthew Arnold
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