England and Yesterday
Louise Imogen Guiney
53 chapters · 1 h 13 min · English
Read by Tomas Peter, Sonia, Eva Davis (d. 2025), Bruce Kachuk, Nemo, RecordingPerson and others
Poetry
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Louise Imogen Guiney was an American poet, well-connected in the art of her time. Much of her life was spent in England, mostly at London and Oxford. This volume of poems contains, among other poems, 24 sonnets written in those two cities. - Summary by Carolin
Chapters
1 London - I. On First Entering Westminster Abbey 1 min 2 London - II. Fog 1 min 3 London - III. Saint Peter-ad-Vincula 1 min 4 London - IV. Strikers in Hyde Park 1 min 5 London - V. Changes in the Temple 1 min 6 London - VI. The Lights of London 1 min 7 London - VII. Doves 1 min 8 London - VIII. In the Reading-Room of the British Museum 1 min 9 London - IX. Sunday Chimes in the City 1 min 10 London - X. A Porch in Belgravia 1 min 11 London - XI. York Stairs 1 min 12 London - XII. In the Docks 1 min 13 Oxford - I. The Tow-Path 1 min 14 Oxford - II. The Old Dial of Corpus 1 min 15 Oxford - III. Ad Antiquarium 1 min 16 Oxford - IV. Rooks in New College Gardens 1 min 17 Oxford - V. On the Pre-Reformation Churches about Oxford 1 min 18 Oxford - VI. On the Same (continued) 1 min 19 Oxford - VII. A December Walk 2 min 20 Oxford - VIII. Undertones at Magdalen 1 min 21 Oxford - IX. Port Meadow 1 min 22 Oxford - X. Martyrs' Memorial 1 min 23 Oxford - XI. A Last View 1 min 24 Oxford - XII. Retrieval 1 min 25 A Ballad of Kenelm 3 min 26 Two Irish Peasant Songs 4 min 27 In a Ruin, after a Thunderstorm 1 min 28 To a Child 1 min 29 In a Perpendicular Church 1 min 30 A Seventeenth-Century Song 1 min 31 Columba and the Stork 2 min 32 The Chantry 1 min 33 April in Govilon 1 min 34 On Leaving Winchester 2 min 35 On the Cenotaph of the Prince Imperial in Saint George's Chapel 2 min 36 Of Joan's Youth 1 min 37 Passing the Minster 1 min 38 The Yew-Tree 1 min 39 Shropshire Landscape 1 min 40 The Graham Tartan to a Graham 1 min 41 In a London Street 2 min 42 Athassel Abbey 2 min 43 Romans in Dorset 2 min 44 To Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 1 min 45 For Izaak Walton 2 min 46 A Footnote to a Famous Lyric 2 min 47 A Memory of a Breconshire Valley 2 min 48 Writ in my Lord Clarendon's 'History of the Rebellion' 1 min 49 A Last Word on Shelley 1 min 50 An Epitaph for William Hazlitt 1 min 51 Emily Brontë 1 min 52 Pax Paganica 1 min 53 Valediction: R. L. S., 1894 1 min
