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Poetry of Wales, The

by Dylan Thomas, George Herbert, Ann Griffiths, Wilfred Owen ...

Narrated by Sian Phillips, Angharad Rees, Glyn Houston, Richard Mitchley ...

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54 min

This proud nation with it’s long history; sometimes rough, hewn from bleak landscapes, sometimes gently soft from its comforting voices has produced a long succession of artists and poets. In the latter category Louis MacNeice most probably stands pre-eminent, his words and phrasing are on a plane few can equal and most are in awe of. But in this volume we do put forward others who have their own ... Read more

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This proud nation with it’s long history; sometimes rough, hewn from bleak landscapes, sometimes gently soft from its comforting voices has produced a long succession of artists and poets. In the latter category Louis MacNeice most probably stands pre-eminent, his words and phrasing are on a plane few can equal and most are in awe of. But in this volume we do put forward others who have their own
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Maine to Greenland

Exploring the Maritime Far Northeast

by Wilfred E. Richard, William Fitzhugh ...

Maine to Greenland is a testament to one of the world's great geographic regions: the Maritime Far Northeast. For more than three decades, William W. Fitzhugh and Wilfred E. Richard have explored the Northeast’s Atlantic corridor and its fascinating history, habitat, and culture. The authors’ powerful personal essays and Richard’s stunning photography transport readers to this vibrant region, ... Read more

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Maine to Greenland is a testament to one of the world's great geographic regions: the Maritime Far Northeast. For more than three decades, William W. Fitzhugh and Wilfred E. Richard have explored the Northeast’s Atlantic corridor and its fascinating history, habitat, and culture. The authors’ powerful personal essays and Richard’s stunning photography transport readers to this vibrant region,
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Top 50 Poems, The

Fifty of the finest poems ever written

by Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Burns, Tagore, W B Yeats, Walt Whitman, William Blake, William Shakespeare ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner ...

Unabridged

2 hours 13 min

Sometimes we just want the best. But that involves choices, judgements, decisions. And that all depends on our feelings, our mood at the time.Even more so with Poetry. Would we like a little more pathos, or love, or humour with that? Can we only choose one Keats? And ’If’? Surely Kipling wrote something else?So difficult to decide. This one or that? Is it easier to choose your fifty favourite ... Read more

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Sometimes we just want the best. But that involves choices, judgements, decisions. And that all depends on our feelings, our mood at the time.Even more so with Poetry. Would we like a little more pathos, or love, or humour with that? Can we only choose one Keats? And ’If’? Surely Kipling wrote something else?So difficult to decide. This one or that? Is it easier to choose your fifty favourite
... Read more
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Poets of the Early 20th Century, The - Volume 2

Find beauty and hope in a period ravaged worldwide by war

by Edna St Vincent Millay, Wilfred Owen, T S Eliot, Alan Seeger, Alun Lewis, Anna Akhmatova, Dorothy Parker, George Orwell, Ivor Gurney, Katherine Mansfield, Langston Hughes ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe ...

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1 hour 53 min

In England the Victorian Age was about to become the past and a new age of worldwide wars of horror and slaughter would envelop and decimate generations, forever staining mankind.The Century would see the World discover strengths. The Democracies would stand firm against Fascism and later Communism yet still keep its own elite and privileged in power and the rest of us underfoot.The World was more ... Read more

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In England the Victorian Age was about to become the past and a new age of worldwide wars of horror and slaughter would envelop and decimate generations, forever staining mankind.The Century would see the World discover strengths. The Democracies would stand firm against Fascism and later Communism yet still keep its own elite and privileged in power and the rest of us underfoot.The World was more
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Top 10 Poets, The - Died in World War I

Five poems each from some of the best poets that tragically died in WW1

by Wilfred Owen ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Niamh Cusack, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

1 hour 35 min

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be ... Read more

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The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be
... Read more
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Poetry of World War I, The - Vol II - The Fallen Poets

by Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Jake Urry, Gideon Wagner ...

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1 hour 5 min

War may be rationalized as ‘diplomacy by other means’ but the reality is that when tribes, Nations and peoples bring themselves into armed conflict with one another mayhem, terror and slaughter are the result.In the First World War, The Great War, The War to End all Wars any idealistic aims that it was a ‘just cause’ and would be all over in a few months were shattered against the vast scale of ... Read more

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War may be rationalized as ‘diplomacy by other means’ but the reality is that when tribes, Nations and peoples bring themselves into armed conflict with one another mayhem, terror and slaughter are the result.In the First World War, The Great War, The War to End all Wars any idealistic aims that it was a ‘just cause’ and would be all over in a few months were shattered against the vast scale of
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Deep Down Things

Essays on Catholic Culture

by John C. Chalberg, Curtis L. Hancock, Ron Hansen, Richard J. Janet, Wilfred LaCroix, M Kathleen Madigan, Michael V. McDevitt, Gerald L. Miller, Patricia Cleary Miller, Paul Turner ...

Deep Down Things: Essays on Catholic Culture explores common threads that characterize Catholicism. The contributors look successively at: Catholic culture and everyday life of the parish and of work, at Catholic culture and the imaginative life of poets and fiction writers, and at Catholic culture and postmodern life where individual conscience, skepticism, and relativism challenge Church ... Read more

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Deep Down Things: Essays on Catholic Culture explores common threads that characterize Catholicism. The contributors look successively at: Catholic culture and everyday life of the parish and of work, at Catholic culture and the imaginative life of poets and fiction writers, and at Catholic culture and postmodern life where individual conscience, skepticism, and relativism challenge Church
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Top 10 Poets, The - The War Poets

Five poems each from some of the best war poets ever

by Wilfred Owen ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Robert Maskell, Gideon Wagner ...

Unabridged

1 hour 10 min

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be ... Read more

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The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be
... Read more
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Poetry of April, The

by Wilfred Owen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Van Dyke, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Hardy ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe ...

Series series Month in Verse
Unabridged

39 min

The fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar heralds Spring in earnest and of course April Showers and perhaps other unsettled weather. For out poets including Owen, Stevenson, Van Dyke, Hardy and Shelley the month provides a rich source for them to muse upon. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The tracks are; April - An Introduction; An April Fool By Alfred Austin; ... Read more

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The fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar heralds Spring in earnest and of course April Showers and perhaps other unsettled weather. For out poets including Owen, Stevenson, Van Dyke, Hardy and Shelley the month provides a rich source for them to muse upon. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The tracks are; April - An Introduction; An April Fool By Alfred Austin;
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Poetry of World War I, The

by Wilfred Owen, Charles Sorley, Edward Thomas ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner ...

Unabridged

59 min

In the War a great volume of poetry was written, produced and published in books, periodicals, newspapers or letters back to home. We often think of War as a necessity. We fight for a more just and better world. We often fail. But in our poets we gain a truth and a morality that shocks us, consoles us and holds our values to the light. In this volume we hear poems from the front, from home, from ... Read more

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In the War a great volume of poetry was written, produced and published in books, periodicals, newspapers or letters back to home. We often think of War as a necessity. We fight for a more just and better world. We often fail. But in our poets we gain a truth and a morality that shocks us, consoles us and holds our values to the light. In this volume we hear poems from the front, from home, from
... Read more
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Poetry of Wilfred Owen, The

by Wilfred Owen ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Jake Urry ...

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1 hour 5 min

Wilfred Owen was born on 18th March 1893 at Plas Wilmot, near Oswestry in Shropshire, the eldest of four childrenWilfred’s education was initially at the Birkenhead Institute and then later at Shrewsbury Technical school.His mothers strong Anglican views passed through to Wilfred and the bible along with books on the Romantic Poets, particularly John Keats were particular favourites and ... Read more

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Wilfred Owen was born on 18th March 1893 at Plas Wilmot, near Oswestry in Shropshire, the eldest of four childrenWilfred’s education was initially at the Birkenhead Institute and then later at Shrewsbury Technical school.His mothers strong Anglican views passed through to Wilfred and the bible along with books on the Romantic Poets, particularly John Keats were particular favourites and
... Read more
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Top 10 Poets – The English Men, The

Five poems each from some of the best male poets ever born in England

by William Shakespeare, John Keats, John Donne, William Wordsworth, William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Lord Byron, Wilfred Owen, Thomas Hardy ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Sean Barrett, Ghizela Rowe ...

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The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be ... Read more

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The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be
... Read more

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