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Mama Amazonica - Pascale Petit
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Jaguar Girl - Pascale Petit
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The Passionate Shepherd to his Love - Christopher Marlowe - Read by Ian McKellen
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To My Dear and Living Husband - Anne Bradstreet - Read by Helen Mirren
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To His Coy Mistress

Read by Patrick Stewart
To His Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvell - Read by Patrick Stewart
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The Job of Paradise - Roger Robinson
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Freddy’s Revenge - Richard Osmond
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Explanation For Those Who Don’t Know Love - Holly Hopkins
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It’s Chinatown - Flora de Falbe
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W. H. Davies

B. 1871 D. 1940

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The Welsh poet William Henry Davies wrote the poem ‘Leisure’, which famously begins:‘What is this life if, full of care,/We have no time to stand and stare.’ The poem’s theme is reflected in Davies’s own outdoor life, which was unconventional….

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Hannah More

B. 1745 D. 1833

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Hannah More’s poem was written in support of William Wilberforce’s campaign to abolish slavery. A passionate, poetic explanation of the anti-abolitionists’ argument, this extract is part of a 294 line poem. ‘Oroonoko’, in the fourth line of this extract, is…

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Alexander Pope

B. 1688 D. 1744

3 poems available

Pope was born into a Catholic family in 1688, the year of The Glorious Revolution, when Catholics could not live in London – the centre of literary life – or attend university. At the age of twelve he contracted a…

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Thomas Wyatt

B. 1503 D. 1542

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Thomas Wyatt was born in 1504. His father was a Lancastrian, imprisoned and tortured near the end of the Wars of the Roses in the reign of Richard III, then promoted to high office by Henry VII. Thomas entered the…

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Olive Senior is a singularly original writer with a genius for re-inhabiting and recreating the wonder and cruel theatre of childhood, while also exploring adult pretensions and realities in relation to history, locality and the multifarious and revelatory world of…

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