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An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard
- By: Thomas Gray, George Sherburn - introduction
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Today Thomas Gray is remembered almost solely for this melancholy meditation on the inevitability of death and the insignificance of fame. The poem was originally thought to have been inspired by the death of Gray's close friend, Richard West, but modern critics think this to be unlikely. Retiring by nature, Gray did not want the elegy to be published, but his hand was forced by an unscrupulous editor who planned to publish the poem without permission. The polished elegance of the versification has ensured that the poem has retained its appeal over the centuries.
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An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 17 mins
- Release date: 05-04-2022
- Language: English
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The Bridge of Fire
- By: James Elroy Flecker
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 53 mins
- Unabridged
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The Bridge of Fire, which appeared in 1907, was Flecker's first published collection of poetry. It contains 35 poems, a number of which were revised and republished in later collections. As with Flecker's other collections, two persistent themes emerge: the poet's fascination with the glories of Grecian antiquity and his premonitions of an early demise. Flecker seemed to be acutely aware that not only would he pass away himself, but also the fading world of British imperialism of which he was a characteristic representative.
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The Bridge of Fire
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 53 mins
- Release date: 24-03-2022
- Language: English
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The Descent to Hell
- From the Aeneid, Book 6
- By: James Elroy Flecker - translator, Virgil
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Among his many other attributes, James Elroy Flecker was a skilled linguist and an expert translator of Latin poetry. In 1913, he planned to write a book to be entitled An interpretation in blank verse of Virgil, Aeneid VI, based on the poetic value of the sounds, together with Latin text and ten prefaces. The surviving translation consists of lines 1-19 and 264-547 from book six, which describe Aeneas' encounter with Sibyl and his visit to the underworld.
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The Descent to Hell
- From the Aeneid, Book 6
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 24 mins
- Release date: 22-03-2022
- Language: English
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The Land
- By: Vita Sackville-West
- Narrated by: Nano Nagle
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Written when Vita became homesick for her beautiful home in Kent, it had six print runs within three years of its publication in 1926. Vita has always been popular for her gardening, her lifestyle, and bohemian companions like Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group. Her nostalgia for farming and the beauty of the seasons is described with an artist’s eye for detail.
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The Land
- Narrated by: Nano Nagle
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 05-04-2022
- Language: English
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Locksley Hall and Locksley Hall Sixty Years After
- By: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Captain F. E. Johnson
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged
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"Locksley Hall" is a dramatic monologue written in 1835 and published in 1842. Tennyson explained that the poem was not autobiographical but purely imaginary, "representing young life, its good side, its deficiences and its yearnings".
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Locksley Hall and Locksley Hall Sixty Years After
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Release date: 08-01-2022
- Language: English
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Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
- By: William Wordsworth
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 10 mins
- Unabridged
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This poem was written by Wordsworth after a walking tour through the Welsh Borders. As usual with many of Wordsworth's poems, it opens with a description of the countryside which is then developed into a philosophical reflection about beauty and the suggestive power of recollection.
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Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 03-01-2022
- Language: English
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Ode: Intimations of Immortality
- By: William Wordsworth
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 14 mins
- Unabridged
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This poem consists of 11 stanzas of varying length, the first four of which were composed in 1802. These deal with the subject of death, a concept with which Wordsworth confesses to having struggled within childhood.
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Ode: Intimations of Immortality
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 14 mins
- Release date: 03-01-2022
- Language: English
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The Growth of Love
- By: Robert Bridges
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Robert Bridges, who was English Poet Laureate between 1913 and 1930, published three versions of his sonnet sequence, The Growth of Love: 1876 - 24 sonnets, 1889 - 79 sonnets, 1898 - 69 sonnets. This recording is of the 1889 edition. The poems are essentially meditations on the elusive subject of love, and display the poet's reverence for his great poetic forebears, particularly Milton and Shakespeare.
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The Growth of Love
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Release date: 12-10-2021
- Language: English
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The Siege of Corinth
- Narrated by: Rob Goll
- Length: 52 mins
- Release date: 06-05-2021
- Language: English
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The Wreck of the Deutschland
- By: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 18 mins
- Unabridged
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This poem was composed in 1875 and 1876, but was not published until 1918. It is considered by many to be Hopkins' masterpiece. One hundred and sixty-eight passengers and crew died when the steamship Deutschland ran aground on the Kentish Knock. Hopkins weaves many Christian themes into his poetic retelling of the tragedy, including the inevitability of suffering, divine providence, salvation, and the hiddenness of God.
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The Wreck of the Deutschland
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 18 mins
- Release date: 09-04-2021
- Language: English
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Poems by Wilfred Owen
- By: Wilfred Owen
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 54 mins
- Unabridged
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This collection of 23 poems contains most of the verse for which Wildred Owen is known today. Few poets have captured more effectively the tragic dichotomy of war, where, for many, survival can be a fate worse than death. The opening poem "Strange Meeting" describes a posthumous encoaunter between a soldier and an enemy combatant who he has killed on the previous day. The penultimate poem, "Disabled", is the private lament of a crippled veteran as he helplessly surveys the daily lives of people unscarred by war.
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Poems by Wilfred Owen
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 54 mins
- Release date: 25-03-2021
- Language: English
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New Hampshire
- By: Robert Frost
- Narrated by: Sara Morsey, Erin Grassie, Mike Vendetti, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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This collection was published in 1923 and won the Pulitzer Prize for the author in the following year. It is laid out in three main sections. The first is a lengthy poem, titled New Hampshire, the name being given to the entire collection. The second section bears the title "Notes", and consists of 14 poems, including the mini drama, "The Witch of Coös". The final section, which contains 30 poems, many of which are very short, is titled "Grace Notes."
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New Hampshire
- Narrated by: Sara Morsey, Erin Grassie, Mike Vendetti, Andy Harrington
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 25-09-2020
- Language: English
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Isabella
- By: John Keats
- Narrated by: Rob Goll
- Length: 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Isabella, or the Pot of Basil is a Romantic narrative poem of 63 stanzas. Written in 1818 and first published in 1820, it is adapted from a story in Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. It tells the tragic tale of Isabella and her love for Lorenzo, an employee of her two brothers. John Keats (1795-1821) was one of the foremost English Romantic poets. Despite his early death from tuberculosis at the age of 25 he had a considerable poetic output.
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Ivanov
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Rob Goll, Peter Tucker, Elizabeth Klett, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
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In this moody Russian drama, Ivanov is a melancholic impoverished landowner whose wife is dying of tuberculosis. However, he finds himself irresistibly drawn to the beautiful Sasha, the daughter of his wealthy neighbors. Augmented by a diverse array of colorful supporting characters and intrigues, this play provides a glimpse of master dramatist Anton Chekhov's early work.
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Ivanov
- Narrated by: Rob Goll, Peter Tucker, Elizabeth Klett, Ron Altman, Ben Stevens, Amanda Friday, Jeff Moon
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 27-04-2020
- Language: English
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Ode to a Nightingale
- By: John Keats
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads "Ode to a Nightingale", a personal poem that describes Keats's journey into a state of negative capability. The tone of the poem rejects the optimistic pursuit of pleasure found within Keats's earlier poems and, instead, explores the themes of nature, transience, and mortality, the latter being particularly relevant to Keats.
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Ode to a Nightingale
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 5 mins
- Release date: 04-02-2020
- Language: English
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Ode to Autumn
- By: John Keats
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 2 mins
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"Ode To Autumn" is a poem by English Romantic poet John Keats. The work was composed on 19 September, 1819 and published in 1820 in a volume of Keats's poetry that included "Lamia" and "The Eve of St. Agnes". "To Autumn" is the final work in a group of poems known as Keats's "1819 odes".
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Ode to Autumn
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 2 mins
- Release date: 04-02-2020
- Language: English
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Because I Could Not Stop for Death
- By: Emily Dickinson
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 1 min
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Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti becomes the speaker of Dickinson's poem personifying Death. Death is a gentleman who is riding in the horse carriage that picks up the speaker in the poem and takes the speaker on her journey to the afterlife.
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Because I Could Not Stop for Death
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 1 min
- Release date: 30-01-2020
- Language: English
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Annabelle Lee
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 2 mins
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"Annabel Lee" tells the story of young love cut short by tragedy. As the speaker (often assumed to be based on Poe himself, whose young wife died shortly before he wrote this poem) discusses his relationship with the now-deceased Annabel Lee, he presents the love between them as pure, eternal, and all-conquering. The love between the speaker and Annabel Lee may have been short-lived, but it remains too powerful to be defeated, even by death. Through describing this intensely idealized love, the poem argues that love is the strongest force on earth.
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Annabelle Lee
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 2 mins
- Release date: 07-01-2020
- Language: English
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Seven Poems We Learned to Love in High School
- By: Various
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 22 mins
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Remember those biggies we loved in high school English? Well, here they are again performed by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti. You'll hear "Chicago" by Carl Sandberg, "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson, "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats, "Song VII ("My song has put off her adornments")" by Rabindranath Tagore, and who can ever forget "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot.
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Seven Poems We Learned to Love in High School
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 22 mins
- Release date: 07-01-2020
- Language: English
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Six Poems of Temptation
- By: Various
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 9 mins
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Temptation looms large in love poetry and religious poetry, but over the centuries, poets have described and explored the topic of temptation from a variety of different perspectives, choosing some very unusual metaphors to illustrate the dangers - or the delights - of temptation. Here are six all-time favorites.
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Six Poems of Temptation
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 12-12-2019
- Language: English
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