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On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer
Read by Simon Russell Beale
by John Keats
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Ulysses
Read by Simon Russell Beale
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Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day (Sonnet 18)
Read by Ian McKellen
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If Thou Must Love Me (Sonnet 14)
Read by Rosamund Pike
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The First Day
Read by Judi Dench
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Remember
Read by Rosamund Pike
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She Walks in Beauty
Read by Jude Law
by Lord Byron
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Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
B. 1886 D. 1962
A tune that one has once heard and liked [that] seems to haunt the mind and will not be dismissed until entirely mastered.
Poet
Bernard O’Donoghue
B. 1945
How perilous is it to choose / not to love the life we're shown? -- 'The Badgers,' Seamus Heaney
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Patience Agbabi
B. 1965
I write because my ink must flow like blood. The written must be spoken. Patience Agbabi
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
B. 1792 D. 1822
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'Ode to a Skylark'