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Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Featuring poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Wordsworth, John Donne, Robert Louis Stevenson, D.H. Lawrence & more. Over the far horizon the blanket of night begins to slowly dissolve. The sun is once more on its daily journey...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 7mins) Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born on May 12th 1828 in London, England. As a youth he was "self-possessed, articulate, passionate and charismatic" but also "ardent, poetic and feckless". Like his siblings, including famed poet Christina Georgina Rossetti, he...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 10mins) Isaac Rosenberg was born on 25th November 1890 in Bristol. As a child his family moved to the squalid streets of London’s Jewish Ghetto, and took any number of menial jobs to survive. Isaac only attended school briefly at age...
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...
(Unabridged: 38mins) September - The ninth month of the year in our Gregorian calendar and with it arrives the Autumn equinox and the first glimpses of the new season. There is much for out Poets including Browning, Kingsley, Yeats, Lanier and Lindsay to say and write about. Among our readers...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 44mins) The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 30mins) Performed by The Marlowe Society One of Shakespeare's most popular plays is here performed by The Marlowe Society with Anthony Jacobs, Corin Redgrave, Paul Scofield and many other very fine actors. The story itself follows on from that of Shakespeare's Richard II (also available in this series)...
Author of the Great Gatsby Fitzgerald writes through the eyes of an independent young woman and the consequences of her romantic choices. Read by Laurel Lefkow (Unabridged: 1hr 3mins) Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24th September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota into an upper-middle class family. Whilst his...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 24mins) Featuring poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes & others. A collection of poems from Americas most influential poetic movement. This group of 19th Century American poets was the first to rival their British...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Tim Graham (Unabridged: 1hr 34mins) Whilst this given name and the poets included can seem at first glance broad and unmanageable the name both historically and artistically is a near perfect fit. Those poets that pledged support to Charles I, a connoisseur and patron...