Classic Collection
Sykes Cottages offer the finest handpicked cottage holidays across the UK and Ireland. They have teamed up with us to create this collection of some of the finest classic poets from across UK and Ireland.
The poets in this collection were inspired by, not only emotions and feelings like love and loss, but also by the nature and landscapes of the British and Irish countryside’s. From Housman’s description of the trees of Wenlock Edge to Keats’ depiction of Autumn. We hope you’ll listen and enjoy these poems and use them as inspiration to get out and explore the countryside for yourself.
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No Coward Soul Is Mine
Read by Fleur Adcock
by Emily Bronte
No Coward Soul Is Mine - Emily Bronte - Read by Fleur Adcock
She Walks in Beauty
Read by Fleur Adcock
by Lord Byron
She Walks in Beauty - Lord Byron - Read by Fleur Adcock
A Shropshire Lad XXXI: On Wenlock Edge
Read by Alan Brownjohn
by A E Housman
A Shropshire Lad XXXI: On Wenlock Edge - A E Housman - Read by Alan Brownjohn
To Autumn
Read by Andrew Motion
by John Keats
To Autumn - John Keats - Read by Andrew Motion
A Frog’s Fate
Read by Alice Oswald
A Frog’s Fate - Christina Rossetti - Read by Alice Oswald
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Read by Andrew Motion
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal - Alfred Tennyson - Read by Andrew Motion
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Read by Simon Armitage
by Oscar Wilde