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Poems By Heart from Penguin Classics app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 8384 ratings )
Education Book
Developer: Penguin Group USA
Free
Current version: 2.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 04 Apr 2013
App size: 39.57 Mb

Poems By Heart from Penguin Classics celebrates classic poetry and challenges you to memorize perennial favorites by master wordsmiths. Memorizing and reciting poems helps you enjoy them at a deeper level, learn them for life, impress your friends, and improve your mind—and Poems By Heart makes it fun, easy, and addictive.

The app features:
-Four free poems, including a love sonnet by Shakespeare (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”) and the classic “Eldorado" by Edgar Allan Poe
-37 poems available in the Poetry Shop (plus the first part of “The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám”), with new additions every month through the first half of 2014
-Works by Walt Whitman, Christina Rossetti, W.B. Yeats, James Weldon Johnson, and eighteen other iconic poets
-Verses of adventure, romance, horror, and more, all carefully selected and edited by the experts at Penguin Classics
-Five difficulty stages and twenty ranks of success

Rack up high scores and achievements on your way to reciting over two dozen poems from heart, with recordings you can share and email to your friends. Each new poem you learn becomes an important part of you who are, and the Huffington Post describes Poems By Heart as “the best poetry app I’ve seen in a while.”
Poems By Heart uses brain-training techniques to make remembering poetry easy and fun – in a fast and responsive game. The National Endowment for the Arts calls the app “smart and beautifully designed, with a skillful blend of iconic poetry, memorization techniques, and great gaming.” Each poem features two new and exclusive dramatic readings, and all-new original art. Kirkus calls Poems By Heart “a sophisticated, wildly addictive tool for avowed poetry lovers.” MacLife recommends Poems By Heart as “a great tool” with a “terrific, animated interface.”

Apple has featured Poems By Heart in New & Noteworthy, in the Books and Education categories, and named it one of Apples "App Store Best of 2013."

Pros and cons of Poems By Heart from Penguin Classics app for iPhone and iPad

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Amazing app. The only issue I had is the lack of variety in poets. Where are more recent visionaries like Angelou? Users should be able to request poems they would like to see brought to life again by the app.
Nice and repetitive practice really speeds up the process of learning.
Simply amazing! I used to hate memorizing poems. This is something different now.
This is a terrific App. I find it lovely to look at, entertaining to navigate, and reasonably priced in terms of the poetry packages available for purchase. This is a delightful way to spend some time on my iPad.
Incorporates all learning styles...learn by reading, reciting, and listening! Beautiful design-bug-less interface! All apps should be this good!
Not quite "addicting" as the description claims, but yes, I practice several times daily and I am actually learning a poem! I will make my En 10 class memorize a poem and recite it using this ap.

Some bad moments

Its a nice app, but after I accidentally removed it and downloaded it again I lost half of what I bought.
The app seems to have some bugs for ios 10. Please update the app. When I launched it for the first time I had an alert that this app might slow down you phone. And my phone becomes clearly hot as I am using it.
This app used to be great...back when it got updates. The newest poem pack was added 3 years ago, and since then, nothing. This wouldnt be a huge issue if you could add your own poems, but for now its a dead app with costly fees for public domain works.
A great idea, but with only two free poems, its a dangling carrot. True, poem packages are cheap, but I assume such poems are old enough that they dont require paying royalties.
Ive always wanted to learn Rime of the Ancient Mariner, so at first glance I was excited to see it available, but its divided into 7 parts, with each part available in a different bundle. So if I want just that one poem, I have to spend 7$ and get a bunch of poems I dont want. Please fix this and make all 7 parts a bundle of their own.
Bought the Gothic bundle on my iPhone but can not access the poems from my iPad. They can not seriously suggest that I have to pay for the same bundle again?!

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