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The Mighty Dead
Weary with Toil (Sonnet 27)
Read by Rosamund Pike
Weary with Toil (Sonnet 27) - William Shakespeare - Read by Rosamund Pike
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Derek Walcott
B. 1930 D. 2017
“What's poetry, if it's worth its salt, / but a phrase men can pass from hand to mouth?”
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Mark McWatt
B. 1947
Strands of autobiography, a deeply sensuous ecology of place, historical narratives; the inner world of imagination and the often difficult realities of the postcolonial nation are interwoven in McWatt's bold but carefully worked out architecture. Peepal Tree
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Robert Frost
B. 1874 D. 1963
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost
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John Fuller
B. 1937
Fuller is a wonderfully skilled craftsman and the grace and elegance of his style is at the service of not only a sharp wit and intelligence, but a great depth of feeling. - Sunday Telegraph
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Gerald Stern
B. 1925 D. 2022
I suppose as I'm explaining myself to others, I'm quintessentially explaining myself to myself. Gerald Stern
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Andrew Motion
B. 1952
My poems are the product of a relationship between a side of my mind which is conscious, alert, educated and manipulative, and a side which is as murky as a primaeval swamp. - Andrew Motion