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Kensal Green, The London Cemetery - Stories & Poems (Audiobook)
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Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 2hrs 51mins)

Featuring poems by GK Chesterton, Thomas Hood, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, Alice Meynell & others.

Curved up against the Harrow road in London is one of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ cemeteries that began to girdle the capital in the Victorian Age.  Gone were the overcrowded disease ridden Parish churchyards and here was a new way to rest for eternity.  Acre upon acre of meandering lawn and tree lined avenues. Ornate catacombs.  

Beautiful sculptured memorials. Stately chapels.   All enmeshed into Nature’s emotions.  Peace, perfect peace.

In this volume we bring you the works of Kensal Rises most famous residents: Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, Alice Meynell and Thomas Hood. And we start with the poem by GK Chesterton who although not buried here immortalised it with ‘The Rolling English Road’.

 

In this compilation - 

01 - Kensal Green - An Introduction
02 - GK Chesterton - The Rolling English Road
03 - Wilkie Collins - The Dream Woman
04 - Thomas Hood - The Song Of The Shirt
05 - Thomas Hood - Ode To The Great Unknown
06 - Thomas Hood - Ode To Melancholy
07 - Thomas Hood - Death
08 - Anthony Trollope - Father Giles Of Ballymoy
09 - Alice Meynell - To A Poet
10 - Alice Meynell - To The Beloved
11 - Alice Meynell - After A Parting
12 - Alice Meynell - Thoughts In Separation
13 - Alice Meynell - Renouncement
14 - Alice Meynell - Regrets
15 - Alice Meynell  - A Letter From A Girl To Her Own Age
16 - Alice Meynell - Your Own Fair Youth
17 - Alice Meynell - Maternity
18 - Alice Meynell - Christ in The Universe
19 - Alice Meynell - In February
20 - Alice Meynell - Summer In England 1914  WAR
21 - Alice Meynell - In Autumn
22 - Wiliam Makepeace Thackeray - Mrs. Perkins's Ball