Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose
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48 chapters · 1 h 54 min · English
Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010), Anne Cheng, Alexander Hughson, Michael Dalling, T. Wellington, Jane Greensmith and others
Anthologies · Poetry
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A collection of prose and poetry written principally in the 18th Century. These works of world literature are written in the English language or are in English translation. (Summary by Alan Davis Drake)
Chapters
1 Spleen, The: A Pindarik Poem 9 min 2 There's No To-Morrow 2 min 3 Inner Vision, The 1 min 4 London 1 min 5 Composed upon Westminster Bridge 1 min 6 Red, Red, Rose, A 1 min 7 Letter to Lord Chesterfield 3 min 8 Day of Judgment, The 2 min 9 Wrestling Jacob 3 min 10 Cradle Hymn, A 3 min 11 Care for the Lowest 2 min 12 Love's Secret 1 min 13 One and Twenty 2 min 14 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 2 min 15 Speech in Commons on India, 1783 5 min 16 Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ 2 min 17 Debtor to Mercy Alone 2 min 18 Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation, The 1 min 19 Ode on a Grecian Urn 3 min 20 Kubla Khan 3 min 21 Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General, A 2 min 22 One and Twenty 2 min 23 On A Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes 3 min 24 Poison Tree, A 1 min 25 Prometheus 4 min 26 Origin of Trades, The 4 min 27 Copernican System, The 3 min 28 Portrait, A 10 min 29 To The Poor 2 min 30 Moon 2 min 31 Garden of Love 1 min 32 On Virtue 2 min 33 Introduction to Songs of Innocence 1 min 34 Without Distinction 1 min 35 Hills of Home 1 min 36 Young and Old 1 min 37 Nightingale and the Glow-Worm, The 2 min 38 Had I a Heart for Falsehood Framed 1 min 39 Solitude 2 min 40 If Lawyer's Hand is Fee'd 1 min 41 Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog 2 min 42 Sonnet I 2 min 43 To Ruin 2 min 44 Mathematical Problem in Verse, A 2 min 45 Glove, The 3 min 46 Lamb, The 2 min 47 Light Shining Out of Darkness 2 min 48 Man Frail and God Eternal 2 min
