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Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 19mins) Elizabeth Barrett Moulton Barrett was born on 6 March 1806, in Coxhoe Hall, County Durham, the eldest of 12 children. The family's wealth was derived from sugar plantations manned by slaves in Jamaica and enabling them to also purchase a...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Alex Jennings (Unabridged: 1hr 42mins) Featuring poems by William Shakespeare, George Meredith, DH Lawrence, Henry Alford, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Thomas Hood, Ben Jonson & others. The original meaning of the word derives from the Italian word ‘sonetto’ meaning ‘little song’. Traditionally a...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 30mins) Featuring poems by DH Lawrence, Rabindranath Tagore, William Wordsworth, Khalil Gibran, Amy Lowell, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman & others. The simple beauty of a single flower has the power to fascinate, captivate and delight us. Its fragrance can intoxicate and...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 15mins) Featuring poems by William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Bridges, Alfred Austin & others. Volume 2 - The office of Poet Laureate is a high honour amongst poets. The Ancient Greeks had the first idea and their heroes and Poets wore...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Alex Jennings & David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 1hr 7mins) Featuring poems by Sir Walter Raleigh, George Herbert, Michael Drayton, Thomas Carew, Katherine Phillips, Edmund Spenser & others. For our Renaissance Poets we start with the coming to the throne of Henry 8th in 1519. From then until...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 17mins) Featuring poems by Louisa May Alcott, John Keats, Hafiz, Victor Hugo & others. ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we...
Read by Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley & Tim Graham (Unabridged: 51mins) In the Scottish canon to be placed alongside Burns is high praise indeed but it’s a rightful place for one of Scotland’s finest novelists and here, poets. Born in 1850 he managed to cram much into his 44...
(Unabridged: 54mins) Edith Nesbit is more famously known as a writer of children’s stories and ghost stories some of which are available in other volumes. But in this volume we explore her poetry. Born in 1858 in Kennington, then part of Surrey and now London. Her early life was one...
Read by Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 1hr 16mins) Henry James was born 15th April 1843 in New York City. His youth was spent travelling with his family receiving what was an "extraordinarily haphazard and promiscuous" education as they journeyed through London, Paris, Geneva, Boulogne-sur-Mer and Newport, Rhode Island, according to the...
Read by Jordan Gallagher, Kelly O'Doherty & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 25mins) William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount in County Dublin, Ireland on 13th June 1865. His early years moved between Ireland and England. By his mid-teens he was writing but those works were described as ‘entirely Un-Irish’. With...