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George Herbert

B. 1593 D. 1633

4 poems available

George Herbert was born 3 April 1593 in Montgomery, Powys, Wales and died at the age of forty. He was descended on his father’s side from the earls of Pembroke and on his mother’s from a family of Shropshire knights….

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

B. 1844 D. 1889

6 poems available

Gerard Hopkins was born in 1844, went to Highgate School and won a scholarship to Balliol College Oxford where he took a double first in Classics. He then entered the Society of Jesus and, feeling that writing poetry was too…

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William Butler Yeats

B. 1865 D. 1939

8 poems available

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) stands at the turning point between the Victorian period and Modernism, the conflicting currents of which affected his poetry. Born in Dublin, Yeats’ family moved to London when he was two and he lived there until…

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The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd - Walter Raleigh - Read by Andrew Motion
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love - Christopher Marlowe - Read by Andrew Motion
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning - John Donne - Read by Andrew Motion
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Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798 - William Wordsworth - Read by Andrew Motion
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We Wear the Mask

Read by David Yezzi
We Wear the Mask - Paul Laurence Dunbar - Read by David Yezzi
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The Raven

Read by David Yezzi
The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe - Read by David Yezzi
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On being brought from Africa to America - Phyllis Wheatley - Read by Mary Jo Salter
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Book 1, Canto 1 of The Faerie Queen - Edmund Spenser - Read by Andrew Motion
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Sonnet 75

Read by Andrew Motion
Sonnet 75 - Edmund Spenser - Read by Andrew Motion
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The Lamb

Read by Andrew Motion
The Lamb - William Blake - Read by Andrew Motion
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To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785 - Robert Burns - Read by Jim Carruth
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A Red, Red Rose

Read by Jim Carruth
A Red, Red Rose - Robert Burns - Read by Jim Carruth
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Annabel Lee

Read by David Yezzi
Annabel Lee - Edgar Allan Poe - Read by David Yezzi
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Song of Myself

Read by David Yezzi
Song of Myself - Walt Whitman - Read by David Yezzi
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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d - Walt Whitman - Read by David Yezzi
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