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Author(s): Keenlyside, Perry
Artist(s): Shrapnel, John
Reader(s): Gallagher, Teresa; Jacobi, Derek; Keeble, Jonathan; Lesser, Anton
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Literature
Catalogue No: NA422112
Barcode: 9789626342213
Release Date: 06/2001
KEENLYSIDE, P.: History of English Literature (The) (Unabridged)
Perry Keenlyside tells the remarkable story of the world’s richest literary resource. The story-telling, the poetry, the growth of the novel and the great histories and essays which have informed the language and the imagination wherever English is spoken. This is the fourth in the Naxos AudioBooks Histories series.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Keenlyside, Perry - Author
Shrapnel, John (actor)
Gallagher, Teresa (Reader)
Jacobi, Derek (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
Gallagher, Teresa (Reader)
Jacobi, Derek (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
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1 | Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales | 07:13 |
Shrapnel, John (actor)
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2 | Extract from The Miller's Tale | 02:42 |
Gallagher, Teresa (Reader)
Shrapnel, John (actor)
Jacobi, Derek (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
Shrapnel, John (actor)
Jacobi, Derek (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
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3 | Extract from The Franklin's Tale | 03:29 |
Gallagher, Teresa (Reader)
Shrapnel, John (actor)
Jacobi, Derek (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
Shrapnel, John (actor)
Jacobi, Derek (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
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4 | William Langland - The Book Concerning Piers Plowman | 02:04 |
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5 | The 'Gawain' poet - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | 02:55 |
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6 | John Gower - Confessio Amantis | 03:34 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
Shrapnel, John (actor)
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
Gallagher, Teresa (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
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7 | John Lydgate - The Duplicity of Women, mid 15th century | 01:53 |
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8 | Anon - I Sing of a Maiden, early 15th century | 01:20 |
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9 | Anon - Carol of Agincourt, circa 1415 | 01:19 |
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10 | Anon - Black-smutted Smiths, mid 15th century | 01:03 |
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11 | Sir Thomas Malory - Le Morte d'Arthur from The Death of Arthur | 06:40 |
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12 | John Skelton - Lullaby | 02:58 |
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13 | Sir Thomas Wyatt - They flee from me... | 02:53 |
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14 | Sir Thomas More - Utopia | 02:17 |
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15 | Thomas Cranmer - The Book of Common Prayer | 02:48 |
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Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Gallagher, Teresa (Reader)
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
Jacobi, Derek (Reader)
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16 | The Triumphs of Oriana | 02:18 |
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17 | Sir Walter Ralegh - As You Came from the Holy Land | 02:11 |
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18 | Edmund Spenser - The Faerie Queene, 1589 | 03:16 |
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19 | Sir Philip Sidney - Astrophel and Stella, 1582 | 02:54 |
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20 | William Shakespeare - The Sonnets, 1609 | 04:32 |
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Jacobi, Derek (Reader)
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21 | Three Sonnets - Shall I compare thee... / The expense of spirit... / Let me not to the marriage... | 03:02 |
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22 | Christopher Marlowe - The Passionate Shepherd to his Love | 01:15 |
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23 | Ben Jonson - To Celia: Drink to Me Only | 01:30 |
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24 | John Donne - Busie Old Foole, Unrulie Sunne | 03:45 |
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25 | A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | 01:25 |
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26 | Holy Sonnets | 01:59 |
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27 | Elizabethan Drama | 02:42 |
Gallagher, Teresa (Reader)
Jacobi, Derek (Reader)
Shrapnel, John (actor)
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
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28 | Christopher Marlow - Dr Faustus | 00:58 |
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29 | William Shakespeare | 02:00 |
Gallagher, Teresa (Reader)
Jacobi, Derek (Reader)
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Lesser, Anton (Reader)
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Disc 2
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1 | Henry IV Part I | 04:40 |
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2 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | 01:40 |
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3 | King Lear | 04:40 |
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4 | The Authorised Version of the Bible - The Song of Solomon | 02:33 |
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5 | Francis Bacon - What is Truth? | 02:10 |
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6 | John Donne - Sermons | 02:44 |
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Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
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7 | Richard Lovelace - To Lucasta, Going to the Wars | 03:17 |
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8 | George Herbert - Love | 02:47 |
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9 | Henry Vaughan - The Retreate | 02:25 |
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10 | Robert Herrick - To Daffodils | 01:32 |
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11 | Richard Lovelace - To Althea, from Prison | 00:54 |
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12 | John Milton | 03:42 |
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13 | Paradise Lost | 01:44 |
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14 | Andrew Marvell - The Definition of Love | 02:12 |
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15 | To His Coy Mistress | 02:06 |
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16 | John Bunyan | 01:53 |
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17 | The Pilgrim's Progress | 01:55 |
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Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
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18 | Daniel Defoe | 02:35 |
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Gallagher, Teresa (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
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19 | Moll Flanders | 03:50 |
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20 | John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester - A Song of a Young Lady to her Ancient Lover | 01:42 |
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21 | John Dryden - Song for St Cecilia's Day | 03:44 |
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22 | William Congreve - The Way of the World | 03:50 |
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23 | The Augustan Age - Alexander Pope | 03:45 |
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24 | The Rape of the Lock | 01:04 |
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25 | Essay on Man | 02:32 |
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26 | Jonathan Swift | 02:15 |
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27 | Gulliver's Travels | 02:20 |
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28 | Samuel Johnson | 02:39 |
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29 | Preface to Shakespeare | 01:01 |
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30 | Henry Fielding | 02:06 |
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31 | The Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his Friend, Mr Abraham Adams | 02:58 |
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Disc 3
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1 | Thomas Gray - Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard | 03:54 |
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2 | William Blake - Auguries of Innocence | 03:26 |
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3 | Mock on, Mock on Voltaire, Rousseau | 01:43 |
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4 | William Wordsworth - Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintem Abbey | 02:07 |
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5 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan | 03:58 |
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6 | The Gothic Novel - Mary Shelley Frankenstein | 01:49 |
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7 | Jane Austen | 02:29 |
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8 | Emma | 04:07 |
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9 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 02:24 |
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10 | Ode to the West Wind | 00:53 |
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11 | George Gordon, Lord Byron - Fragment | 02:20 |
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12 | John Keats - Ode on Melancholy / Ode to a Nightingale / Ode on a Grecian Um | 04:23 |
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13 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Be near me when my light is low | 03:16 |
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14 | Charles Dickens - Hard Times / Great Expectations | 06:34 |
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15 | Children's literature - The Detective Novel | 01:59 |
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16 | The Brontes: Charlotte Bronte; Ann Bronte: Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights | 06:13 |
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17 | Matthew Arnold - Dover Beach | 02:03 |
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18 | George Eliot - Middlemarch | 03:29 |
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19 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson - In Memoriam, Tears, Idle Tears | 03:57 |
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20 | Christina Rossetti - A Pause | 02:21 |
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21 | Robert Browning - My Last Duchess | 03:31 |
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22 | Rudyard Kipling - Recessional | 01:57 |
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23 | Thomas Hardy - Neutral Tones / Tess of the d'Urbervilles | 05:49 |
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24 | Gerard Manley Hopkins - No wrost, there is none | 03:01 |
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25 | Alfred Edward Housman | 01:08 |
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Disc 4
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1 | Into my Heart an air that kills (A Shropshire Lad) | 00:49 |
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2 | Henry James | 02:20 |
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3 | Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness | 04:18 |
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4 | Herbert George Wells - The War of the Worlds | 03:57 |
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5 | David Herbert Lawrence - Odour of Chrysanthemums | 05:08 |
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6 | Wilfred Owen - Futility | 04:17 |
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7 | William Butler Yeats - The Second Coming, Collected Poems | 01:25 |
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8 | James Joyce - Dubliners / Finnegans Wake | 04:04 |
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9 | Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse | 03:14 |
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10 | Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall | 03:24 |
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11 | George Orwell - Coming Up for Air | 03:08 |
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12 | T.S. Eliot | 02:38 |
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13 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Lay your sleeping head, my love | 01:28 |
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14 | Cecil Day-Lewis | 03:00 |
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15 | Keith Douglas - How to Kill | 01:12 |
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16 | Dylan Thomas - A Refusal to Mourn the Death, By Fire, of a Child in London | 01:57 |
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17 | Ivy Compton-Burnett / Jean Rhys / Doris Lessing | 03:10 |
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18 | Muriel Spark - Memento Mori / Iris Murdoch / Graham Green | 04:55 |
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19 | William Golding - The Spire / Angus Wilson / Anthony Powell | 06:09 |
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20 | Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim | 02:35 |
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21 | Philip Larkin - Coming | 02:54 |
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22 | Sir John Betjeman - The Metropolitan Railway: Baker Street Station Buffet | 01:59 |
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23 | Ted Hughes - Thrushes | 02:13 |
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24 | James Graham Ballard - Empire of the Sun | 04:10 |
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25 | Carol Ann Duffy - Pilate's Wife | 02:19 |
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26 | Epilogue | 02:10 |
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Total Playing Time: 05:15:54