Alan Mapstone
Tannhäuser
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Richard Wagner
The legend of Tannhäuser, the Minstrel Knight who, having betrayed his love for the virtuous Elizabeth by dallying in the Venusberg, re…
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto III
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818. The poem describ…
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers was first published anonymously in 1809 with Byron only identified as the author in the 2nd edition. Byro…
Poems of Pilgrimage
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Thomas Hardy
A short collection of poems by Thomas Hardy describing his feelings when visiting various places of historic interest in Italy and Switzerla…
Admirals All
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Sir Henry Newbolt
A short collection of poems on Naval and other military themes by the English poet and military historian Sir Henry Newbolt published in1897…
Poems (Version 2)
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Wilfred Owen
The English poet Wilfred Owen was killed on 4th November 1918 just seven days before the Armistice which ended the First World War. This boo…
Selection from Poems
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Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin is often called "the father of Russian literature". He was the first great poet to write in Russian …
Poems Concerning the Slave Trade
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Robert Southey
Robert Southey, a future Poet Laureate, was born in Bristol, one of the principal ports in England for the slave trade. He wrote these poems…
Childe Roland and Other Poems
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Robert Browning
The title poem was inspired by various images which Browning saw while living in Italy, an old tower in the Carrara Mountains, a painting in…
Love Poems
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D. H. Lawrence
"Love Poems and Others" was D. H. Lawrence's first book of poetry published in 1913.(Summary by Alan Mapstone)
Great Poems of the World War
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Various
A selection of poems written during or immediately after the First World War (1914-1918). Most are by men (American, British, Canadian or Au…
Hebrew Melodies
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
Byron wrote the Hebrew Melodies to accompany music by the composer Isaac Nathan which he claimed derived from Synagogue tunes used at the ti…
Epistle to Lord Byron and other poems
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Leigh Hunt
Leigh Hunt was an English poet, essayist and editor best remembered as the host of a literary circle which gathered at his home in Hampstead…
The Church Militant (The Temple Part 3) and Other Poems
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George Herbert
George Herbert was an English poet, orator and cleric who was Public Orator at the University of Cambridge before becoming a rural Parish Mi…
Ravenna and Other Poems
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's poem Ravenna won the prestigious Newdigate Prize for Poetry at Oxford University. It was recited by the author in the Sheldoni…
The Negro's Complaint and Other Poems
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William Cowper
William Cowper was an English poet and Anglican hymn writer. He was a forerunner of the Romantic movement in English poetry and strongly inf…