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Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 15mins) Featuring poems by Tagore, George Eliot, WB Yeats & others. Love. What is love? The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive. Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but...
Read by James Taylor, Aidan Gillen, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley & Alex Jennings (Unabridged: 1hr 49mins) Featuring poems by GK Chesterton, Herman Melville, Christoper Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde & others. Novelists stake their claim as artists on works that encapsulate a whole world of characters and narrative...
Read by Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged 1hr 23mins) Featuring poems by John Milton, William Morris, John Donne, Sara Teasdale, John Keats & others. The night begins its surrender to the first gleamings of the day. The day falls into the inky embrace of night. Within these...
(Unabridged: 1hr 23mins) Many giants of Literature originate from the shores of these emerald isles; Shakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer, The Brontes and Austen to which most people would willingly add the name Thomas Hardy. Far From The Madding Crowd, Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, The Mayor Of Casterbridge are but three...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 12mins) Featuring poems by William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Thomas Hardy, Percy Bysshe Shelley & more. When the wind blows and the rain lashes our emotions can become dulled and our thoughts depressed but sometimes these swirling conditions can excite...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) John Dryden was born on August 9th, 1631 in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire and grew up in a nearby village. In 1644 he was sent to Westminster School as a King's Scholar and...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 3mins) George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, but more commonly known as just Byron was a leading English poet in the Romantic Movement along with Keats and Shelley. Byron was born on January 22nd, 1788. He was a great...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 13mins) Featuring poems by Matthew Arnold, Lewis Carroll, GK Chesterton, Elizabeth Barrett Browning & others. Victorian Poetry – Volume 1 - An Introduction. Victoria’s reign was long and presided over the restless expansion of the British Empire and reams of creative...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner & William Dufris (Unabridged: 1hr 15mins) Featuring poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ambrose Bierce, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, James Whitcomb Riley & others. America. Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. Across its vast landscape a Nation was being built. ...
(Unabridged: 41mins) Elizabeth Barrett Moulton Barrett was born on 6 March 1806, in Coxhoe Hall, County Durham, the eldest of twelve children. Family wealth was derived from sugar plantations manned by slaves in Jamaica and enabling them to also purchase a 500 acre estate in Herefordshire. This wealth allowed her...