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Read by Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner, Tim Graham & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 17mins) With our almost religious zeal to categorise and pigeon hole everything it should come as little surprise that one of the poems we learnt at school should so regularly be voted the best ever poem. Whether ‘If..’...
Read by Richard Burton (Unabridged: 36mins) John Donne (1572 – 1631) was an English poet, preacher, and a major representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works are notable for their realistic and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires, and...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) For many of us DH Lawrence was a schoolboy hero. Who can forget sniggering in class at the mention of Women In Love or Lady Chatterley’s Lover? Lawrence was a talented if nomadic writer whose novels were passionately received,...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 53mins) With classics such as ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘The Pied Piper Of Hamelin’ Robert Browning’s status as one of the great Victorian Poets will always be secure in popular culture. For the more literary he is considered a master...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 50mins) Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that the English language has produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this volume we...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 8mins) Alexander Pope was born on May 21st, 1688 into a Catholic family in London. His education was affected by the then recent Test Acts, which upheld the status of the Church of England and banned Catholics from teaching. ...
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 1min) John Donne was born on 22nd January 1572 in London into a Roman Catholic family when Catholicism was illegal in England and there was turbulence and unrest with both state and church throughout much of Europe. His father,...
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 2mins) Andrew Marvell was born in Winestead-in-Holderness, in the East Riding of Yorkshire on March 31st, 1621. He was educated at Hull Grammar School and at the age of 13, he attended Trinity College, Cambridge and eventually received his BA...