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Robert Browning
B. 1812 D. 1889
Robert Browning was born in South London in 1812. He was largely self-educated, utilising his father’s extensive library of over six thousand volumes. A voracious reader, Browning would later draw on his wide and sometimes arcane learning in his poetry,…
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
B. 1806 D. 1861
Elizabeth Barrett was born in 1806, the eldest of twelve children of Edward Barrett, whose fortune was derived from Jamaican plantations. She was largely self-educated at home: something of a prodigy, she read novels aged six and Pope’s translations of…
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How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix – an extract - Robert Browning
I sprang to the saddle, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; ‘Speed’ echoed the wall to us galloping through . . . ‘Speed’ echoed the . . . Then the gate shut behind us,…
The Classics
Home Thoughts, from Abroad
Read by Anthony Thwaite
Home Thoughts, from Abroad - Robert Browning - Read by Anthony Thwaite
Oh, to be in England Now that April’s there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on…
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Love in a Life
Read by Anthony Thwaite
Love in a Life - Robert Browning - Read by Anthony Thwaite
I Room after room, I hunt the house through We inhabit together. Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her— Next time, herself!—not the trouble behind her Left in the curtain, the couch’s perfume! As she brushed it, the…
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Porphyria’s Lover
Read by Anthony Thwaite
Porphyria’s Lover - Robert Browning - Read by Anthony Thwaite
The rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in…
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My Last Duchess
Read by Anthony Thwaite
My Last Duchess - Robert Browning - Read by Anthony Thwaite
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf’s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will ‘t please you sit and look at…
Poet
Mick Imlah
B. 1956 D. 2009
Mick Imlah (1956 – 2009) was one of the most brilliant poets of his generation. He published just two collections, Birthmarks in 1988, and twenty years on, the long-awaited The Lost Leader, which won the Forward Prize, and was short-listed…