Narratives
Venus and Adonis (Version 2)
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
William Shakespeare
Both Ovid and Spenser also treat this ancient myth, but Spenser alters the ending, converting the tale into an archetype of fulfilled love, …
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2)
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Various
The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, co…
Poetic Trios
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Various
We selected some of our favourite poets for this collection, including Dante, Fitzgerald, Keats, Barrett Browning, Lear, Carroll, Milton, Mo…
The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich
Read by Liam Brady
Arthur Hugh Clough
Arthur Clough provides us with a timeless coming of age story involving a young Englishman studying in Scotland who falls in love. - Summar…
Queen Mab
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Queen Mab is the first major poetic work by Percy Bysshe Shelley and serves as a foundation to his theory of revolution. It depicts a two-pr…
The Corsair
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Corsair (1814) by Lord Byron narrates the tale of Conrad, a pirate or privateer, who was rejected by society in his youth because of his…
The Vision of Piers the Plowman (Warren translation)
Read by Patrick Randall
William Langland
William Langland’s Vision of Piers the Plowman is one of the Early English poems that may well appeal to many other readers than the profess…