Narratives

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Romance

556

C. J. Dennis - Digger Smith

“Digger Smith” is a series of narrative poems about an Australian soldier coming home in the closing months of the Great War minus a leg and with “ANZAC eyes”… what a later war would call “The Thousand Yard Stare”....

Son of the Exiles 1 hour 24 minutes

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Narratives

503

William Wordsworth - Peter Bell: A Tale

A ne'er-do-well's life is changed by an encounter with a stubborn animal. — Summary by Matthew Schneider

FunkyPhD 54 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

516

C. J. Dennis - Jim of the Hills - A Story in Rhyme

Jim, an axe-man for a sawmill, who is a hard-knuckled, two-fisted fighting man when he has to be, but is shy around women, longs to find a wife and settle down. Two women, one a mercenary widow of the country town,...

Son of the Exiles 1 hour 21 minutes

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Narratives

564

Edgar Allan Poe - Raven and The Philosophy Of Composition

Poe’s famous narrative poem and the author’s reflections on its composition. (David Wales)

David Wales 42 minutes

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Fairy Realm: A Collection Of The Favourite Old Tales Told in Verse

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

465

Tom Hood - Fairy Realm: A Collection Of The Favourite Old Tales Told in Verse

Here are five of the most loved Fairy Tales retold in verse by the English humourist and writer, Tom Hood (1835 — 1874). The tales are; The Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Cinderella and Hop o'...

NoelBadrian 2 hours 33 minutes

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Poetry

508

Poetic Trios

We selected some of our favourite poets for this collection, including Dante, Fitzgerald, Keats, Barrett Browning, Lear, Carroll, Milton, Morris, Swinburne and Rossetti. We hope you enjoy listening to them. — Summary...

4 hours 46 minutes

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Narratives

507

Edwin Arlington Robinson - Captain Craig: A Book of Poems

This is a volume of narrative poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson. — Summary by Carolin

Subhash Chander and 8 more 3 hours 16 minutes

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Single author

491

Sir Walter Scott - Lay of the Last Minstrel

An aging minstrel seeks who hospitality at Newark Castle and in recompense tells a tale of a sixteenth-century Border feud. In the poem, Lady Margaret Scott of Buccleuch, the «Flower of Teviot» is beloved by Baron...

Peter Tucker 2 hours 53 minutes

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Narratives

554

William Henry Davies - Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp is an autobiography published in 1908 by the Welsh poet and writer W. H. Davies (1871–1940). A large part of the book's subject matter describes the way of life of the tramp in the...

Expatriate 8 hours 14 minutes

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Epics

543

Matthew Arnold - Sohrab and Rustum: An Episode

A young soldier born among Tartars but sired by the mighty Persian lord Rustum, serves in the Tartar army, seeking his great father. To this end, he persuades his general to call a truce and arrange for him to...

52 minutes

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Epics

490

Matthew Arnold - Balder Dead (version 2)

The poem begins with the beloved god Balder, thought to be invulnerable, dead at the hands of the inoffensive blind god Hoder, in a game. Loki, whose deceit brought about this catastrophe, is promptly punished with...

Thomas A. Copeland 1 hour 13 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

535

Phineas Fletcher - Brittains Ida or Venus and Anchises

While hunting, the boy Anchises stumbles upon Venus's forest retreat and is so kindly entertained by the goddess that he becomes the proud father of Aeneas, the hero of Vergil's Aeneid . The poem is an epyllion like...

32 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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