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Gloriana Dying - Sylvia Townsend Warner
None shall gainsay me. I will lie on the floor. Hitherto from horseback, throne, balcony, I have looked down upon your looking up. Those sands are run. Now I reverse the glass And bid henceforth your homage downward, falling Obedient…
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
B. 1893 D. 1978
Sylvia Townsend Warner [1893-1978] is best known today as a groundbreaking feminist and lesbian writer who championed the cause of the outsider in novels such as Lolly Willowes. However, this is only one aspect of a writer whose literary career…
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Book 1, Canto 1 of The Faerie Queen
Read by Andrew Motion
Book 1, Canto 1 of The Faerie Queen - Edmund Spenser - Read by Andrew Motion
i A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine, Y cladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe wounds did remaine, The cruell markes of many a bloudy fielde; Yet armes till that time did he…