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Peter Whitfield: The History of English Poetry (unabridged)

Read by Derek Jacobi

  • Release Date: 1st Sep 2009
  • Catalogue No: NA791512
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Series: Non-Fiction
  • Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

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Peter Whitfield: The History of English Poetry (Unabridged)

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Foundations

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Beowulf (8th - 11th century)

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Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 - 1400)

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Geoffrey Chaucer (cont.)

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John Skelton (c. 1460 - 1529)

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Sir Thomas Sackville (1536 - 1608); Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 - 1542)

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Sir Thomas Wyatt (cont.); Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517 - 1547)

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The Elizabethan Achievement: Sir Walter Ralegh (1552 - 1618); Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)

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Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)

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George Chapman (c. 1559 - 1634); Arthur Golding (c. 1536 - c. 1605); Richard Stanyhurst (1547 - 1618)

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Samuel Daniel (1563 - 1619); Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631)

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Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593)

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The Elizabethan Achievement (cont.): William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

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William Shakespeare (cont.)

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William Shakespeare (cont.)

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William Shakespeare (cont.)

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The 17th Century (From Donne to Milton): John Donne (1572 - 1631)

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Thomas Carew (1595–1640); Richard Lovelace (1618–1657); John Cleveland (1613–1658); Edmund Waller (1606–1687)

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Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)

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George Herbert (1593 - 1633); Henry Vaughan (1621 - 1695); Thomas Traherne (1637 - 1674); Richard Crashaw (1613 - 1649)

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Andrew Marvell (1621 - 1678)

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John Milton (1608 - 1674)

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John Milton (cont.)

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John Marston (1576 - 1634)

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The 18th Century (From Dryden to Blake): Samuel Butler (1613 - 1680); John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647 - 1680)

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John Dryden (1631 - 1700)

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John Dryden (cont.)

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Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762); James Thomson (1700 - 1748)

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Edward Young (1681 - 1765); Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771)

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Thomas Percy (1729 - 1811); James Macpherson (1736 - 1796)

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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784); Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774)

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William Cowper (1731 - 1800); George Crabbe (1754 - 1832)

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Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)

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William Blake (1757 - 1827)

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William Blake (cont.)

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The Romantic Poets: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)

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William Wordsworth (cont.)

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (cont.); Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)

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Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

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Lord Byron (cont.)

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (cont.)

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John Keats (1795 - 1821)

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John Keats (cont.)

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John Clare (1793 - 1864)

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The Poetry of the Victorian Age: Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892)

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Alfred Tennyson (cont.)

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The Poetry of the Victorian Age (cont.): Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)

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Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888)

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Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883); George Meredith (1828 - 1909)

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Emily Bronte (1818 - 1848); Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)

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William Morris (1834 - 1896)

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Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)

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Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909)

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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)

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Gerard Manley Hopkins (cont.)

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Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)

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A.E. Housman (1859 - 1936); Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)

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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

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American Poetry: Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612 - 1672); Edward Taylor (c. 1642 - 1729)

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Philip Freneau (1752 - 1832); William Cullen Bryant (1794 - 1878)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

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Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882); John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 - 1892)

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Sidney Lanier (1842 - 1881); Edward Arlington Robinson (1869 - 1935)

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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

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Modernism: Introduction

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William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)

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James Elroy Flecker (1884 - 1915); Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917)

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Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918); Isaac Rosenberg (1890 - 1918); Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)

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Modernism (cont.): T.S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)

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W.H. Auden (1907 - 1972); Louis MacNeice (1907 - 1963)

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Hilda Doolittle (1886 - 1961); Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)

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Edgar Lee Masters (1868 - 1950); Vachel Lindsay (1879 - 1931); Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967)

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E.E. Cummings (1894 - 1962); Robinson Jeffers (1887 - 1962); William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)

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Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955); Hart Crane (1899 - 1932)

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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)

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Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953); John Betjeman (1906 - 1984)

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Philip Larkin (1922 - 1985); Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998)

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Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963); Ginsberg (1926 - 1997)

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Robert Lowell (1917 - 1977)

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Conclusion

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The Essence of the Poetic Act

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