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Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. This series looks at individual...
Read by Gideon Wagner & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 10mins) Featuring poems by Amy Lowell, Herman Melville, DH Lawrence, William Morris, John Donne & others. Who does not remember the immortal lines from childhood – ‘Break Break Break On Thy Cold Grey Stones’. The seas and oceans have a mystical...
(Unabridged: 56mins) William Wordsworth was born on the 7th of April, 1770 and is rightly regarded as a major English poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature. His words have been proffered by many a tongue around the world. They stir, they inspire...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner & William Dufris (Unabridged: 1hr 24mins) Featuring poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe & others. America. Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. Across its vast landscape a Nation was being built. ...
(Unabridged: 1hr 49mins) Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped...
Read by Gayle Hunnicutt (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence is set against an exclusive society background in which she reveals how Newland Archer is often the victim of, rather than the key player in, the events. The plot is constructed on a pattern of ironic misunderstandings:...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 6mins) Charles Hamilton Sorley was born on May 19th, 1895 in Aberdeen. His family moved to Cambridge when Sorley was five and his education later continued at Marlborough College, 1908-1913, where he became an excellent debater. His favourite past...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Robert Laurence Binyon, CH, was born on 10th August 1869 in Lancaster in Lancashire, England to Quaker parents, Frederick Binyon and Mary Dockray. He studied at St Paul's School, London before enrolling at Trinity College, Oxford, to read classics....
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Robert Seymour Bridges, OM was born on 23rd October 1844 at Walmer in Kent where he spent his early childhood in a house overlooking the anchoring ground of the British fleet. His father died aged only 47 in...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Featuring poems by Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Hardy, H.P. Lovecraft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, W.B. Yeats & more. The sun has descended below the far horizon. The inky blackness of night begins to envelop the land. Day has gone and the nocturnal...