App Detail » Poems By Heart from Penguin Classics

What's New

This update to Poems By Heart includes:
- 2 new free poems, including "Eldorado" by Edgar Allan Poe
- A new "Holiday" pack of poems, including "The Night Before Christmas"
- Upcoming, monthly releases of new packs of poems
- The ability to buy volumes 1 and 2 at reduced prices
- An improved look and feel, updated for iOS 7

App Description

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 Apple's "App Store Best of 2013."

App Changes

• April 04, 2013 Initial release
• April 20, 2013 New version 1.1
• September 17, 2013 New version 1.2
• December 12, 2013 New version 2.0