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The Mighty Dead

On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer

Read by Simon Russell Beale

by John Keats

On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer - John Keats - Read by Simon Russell Beale
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Is it thy will thy image should keep open (Sonnet 61)

Read by Simon Callow

by William Shakespeare

Is it thy will thy image should keep open (Sonnet 61) - William Shakespeare - Read by Simon Callow
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Weary with Toil (Sonnet 27)

Read by Rosamund Pike

by William Shakespeare

Weary with Toil (Sonnet 27) - William Shakespeare - Read by Rosamund Pike
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Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day (Sonnet 18)

Read by Ian McKellen

by William Shakespeare

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day (Sonnet 18) - William Shakespeare - Read by Ian McKellen
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How do I Love Thee (Sonnet 43)

Read by Judi Dench

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I Love Thee (Sonnet 43) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Read by Judi Dench
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If Thou Must Love Me (Sonnet 14)

Read by Rosamund Pike

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If Thou Must Love Me (Sonnet 14) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Read by Rosamund Pike
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The First Day

Read by Judi Dench

by Christina Rossetti

The First Day - Christina Rossetti - Read by Judi Dench
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Remember

Read by Rosamund Pike

by Christina Rossetti

Remember - Christina Rossetti - Read by Rosamund Pike
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Sonnet 130: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun

Read by Daniel Radcliffe

by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 130: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun - William Shakespeare - Read by Daniel Radcliffe
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Day Moon

by Roger Robinson

Day Moon - Roger Robinson
Special Collection

Shakespeare 400

As part of the Shakespeare Lives in 2016 programme, celebrating the work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council has supported The Poetry Archive to enable us to record and present the Shakespeare 400 Collection. The Shakespeare 400 Collection…

Poet

David Morley

B. 1964

5 poems available

Morley conjures a marvellous sense of nature as intimacy, something precise yet loaded and of immense importance to us. George Szirtes

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