Whitfield, P.: History of English Poetry (The) (Unabridged)

The History of English Poetry

• Released on 29/09/2009 by Naxos Audiobooks
• Main artists: Derek Jacobi
• Genre: Humour/Spoken Word

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1 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Foundations

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2 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Beowulf (8th - 11th century)

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3 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 - 1400)

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4 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Geoffrey Chaucer (cont.)

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5 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): John Skelton (c. 1460 - 1529)

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6 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Sir Thomas Sackville (1536 - 1608); Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 - 1542)

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7 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Sir Thomas Wyatt (cont.); Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517 - 1547)

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8 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): The Elizabethan Achievement: Sir Walter Ralegh (1552 - 1618); Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)

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9 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)

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10 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): George Chapman (c. 1559 - 1634); Arthur Golding (c. 1536 - c. 1605); Richard Stanyhurst (1547 - 1618)

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11 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Samuel Daniel (1563 - 1619); Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631)

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12 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593)

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1 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): The Elizabethan Achievement (cont.): William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

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2 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): William Shakespeare (cont.)

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3 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): William Shakespeare (cont.)

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4 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): William Shakespeare (cont.)

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5 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): The 17th Century (From Donne to Milton): John Donne (1572 - 1631)

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6 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Thomas Carew (1595–1640); Richard Lovelace (1618–1657); John Cleveland (1613–1658); Edmund Waller (1606–1687)

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7 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)

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8 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): George Herbert (1593 - 1633); Henry Vaughan (1621 - 1695); Thomas Traherne (1637 - 1674); Richard Crashaw (1613 - 1649)

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9 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Andrew Marvell (1621 - 1678)

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10 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): John Milton (1608 - 1674)

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11 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): John Milton (cont.)

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12 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): John Marston (1576 - 1634)

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1 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): The 18th Century (From Dryden to Blake): Samuel Butler (1613 - 1680); John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647 - 1680)

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2 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): John Dryden (1631 - 1700)

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3 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): John Dryden (cont.)

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4 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)

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5 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762); James Thomson (1700 - 1748)

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6 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Edward Young (1681 - 1765); Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771)

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7 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Thomas Percy (1729 - 1811); James Macpherson (1736 - 1796)

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8 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784); Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774)

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9 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): William Cowper (1731 - 1800); George Crabbe (1754 - 1832)

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10 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)

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11 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): William Blake (1757 - 1827)

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12 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): William Blake (cont.)

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1 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): The Romantic Poets: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)

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2 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): William Wordsworth (cont.)

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3 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)

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4 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Samuel Taylor Coleridge (cont.); Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)

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5 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

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6 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Lord Byron (cont.)

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7 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)

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8 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Percy Bysshe Shelley (cont.)

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9 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): John Keats (1795 - 1821)

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10 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): John Keats (cont.)

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11 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): John Clare (1793 - 1864)

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12 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): The Poetry of the Victorian Age: Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892)

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13 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): Alfred Tennyson (cont.)

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1 The History of English Poetry (Unabridged): The Poetry of the Victorian Age (cont.): Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)

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About the album

• 7 disc(s) - 88 track(s)
• Total length: 08:05:01
• 1 Digital booklet

• Main artists: Derek Jacobi
• Composer: Peter Whitfield
• Label: Naxos Audiobooks
• Genre: Humour/Spoken Word
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