The role of fathers is fraught with difficulty and the effort of combining both the tenderness of love and support with the age old virtues of strength and leadership troubles many men. Unsurprisingly, poets have celebrated this challenging position over the years and have characterized fathers with both a courageous view of life and dependability to be there for their children.
In this collection many of our greatest poets including Rudyard Kipling, Walt Whitman, and Emily Bront├½ express their opinions of that unique role of fatherhood—whether as one themselves or as a child reaching for that same mantle.
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Xe Sands has more than a decade of experience bringing stories to life through narration, performance, and visual art, including recordings of the Nightwalkers series from Jaquelyn Frank. She has received several honors, including AudioFile Earphones Awards and a coveted Audie Award, and she was named Favorite Debut Romance Narrator of 2011 in the Romance Audiobooks poll.
Ghizela Rowe has worked in broadcast television for thirty years on a broad range of programming. Her specialization is in music. She helps run the Copyright Group, an extensive collection of master recording rights, and has lent her voice to many audiobooks, including The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Gaskell: The Short Stories, and The Romantics: An Introduction.