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John Keats: Selected Poems

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


John Keats


John Keats is perhaps the most talented poet of the English Romantic Period. Although his life was cut short by disease at the age of 25, he…

Kazan

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


James Oliver Curwood


Kazan (sometimes published with the subtitle The Wolf Dog) is a once very popular novel by environmentalist and author James Oliver Curwood.…

Shelley: Selected Poems and Prose

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Percy Bysshe Shelley


The English Romantic Period in literature featured a towering group of excellent poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. If …

Orley Farm

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Anthony Trollope


Orley Farm is Trollope at his best (as good as the Barsetshire series), which means some of the best characterizations in the English langua…

Evangeline

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Evangeline is one of Longfellow’s most popular poems and was once a great favorite with the American people. For many years almost every sch…

The Courtship of Miles Standish

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


During the late nineteenth century and until the middle of the twentieth, many elementary classrooms in America featured (along with a Gilbe…

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Mark Twain


The town of Hadleyburg had the reputation of being the most honest town in a wide area, indeed an incorruptible community. The elders took t…

Selected Poems

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Dante Gabriel Rossetti


Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) and his sister Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) played important roles in the artistic milieu of V…

Indian Summer

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


William Dean Howells


In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of…

Aucassin and Nicolette

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Andrew Lang, Unknowntranslated Byandrew Lang and Translated Byandrew Lang


Aucassin and Nicolette is a medieval romance written in a combination of prose and verse called a “song-story.” Created probably in the earl…

Amoretti: A sonnet sequence

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Edmund Spenser


The Amoretti (meaning little love poems) is a sequence of 89 sonnets written in the tradition of the Petrarchan sonnets, a popular form for …

The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher

Read by Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock


Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock


University of Oxford Podcasts

Where the Pelican Builds - Read by TRW

In Where the Pelican Builds

Read by Tom R Wilson


Mary Hannay Foott


Mary Hannay Foott was an Australian poet and editor who is best remembered for the poem Where the pelican builds.

Poem 212 - 无题 其一 (Mandarin)

In 唐诗三百首 卷四 Three Hundred Tang Poems, Volume 4

Read by Wilson


Li Shang Yin


Compiled around 1763, 'Three Hundred Tang Poems' is the standard collection of the poetic art of the Tang Dynasty (618 to 907). Volume Four …

Chapter 1

In The Cloister and the Hearth

Read by Tom Denholm


Charles Reade


'The Cloister and the Hearth', by Charles Reade, was published in 1861. It's a long and winding picaresque novel set in 15th century Europe,…

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