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The history of English literature

Author: Perry Keenlyside; Derek Jacobi; Naxos AudioBooks, Ltd.
Publisher: Redhill, Surrey, England : Naxos AudioBooks, 2001.
Series: Classic literature with classical music., Non-fiction.
Edition/Format:  Audiobook on CD : CD audio : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A brief survey of English literature since 1375.
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Material Type: Audio book, etc.
Document Type: Sound Recording
All Authors / Contributors: Perry Keenlyside; Derek Jacobi; Naxos AudioBooks, Ltd.
ISBN: 9626342218 9789626342213
OCLC Number: 47843709
Notes: Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Biographical notes on narrators, and music discography (24 p. : ports.) inserted in container.
Naxos AudioBooks: NA422112, NA422122, NA422132, NA422142.
Performer(s): Read by Derek Jacobi and cast.
Description: 4 sound discs (5 hr., 16 min., 52 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Description: Europe, Poetry, Spoken Word, Drama
Genre / Style: Spoken Word; Poetry, Drama, Spoken Word
Release Date: Jun 19, 2001
Contents:
Title Performer/Composer Time
1 Age of Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Chaucer 7:13
2 Age of Chaucer: The Miller's Tale [Extract] Chaucer 2:42
3 Age of Chaucer: The Franklin's Tale [Extract] Chaucer 3:29
4 Age of Chaucer: The Book Concerning Piers Plowman Langland 2:04
5 Age of Chaucer: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 2:55
6 Age of Chaucer: Confessio Amantis Gower 3:34
7 End of Chivalry: The Duplicity of Women Lydgate 1:53
8 End of Chivalry: I Sing a of a Maiden Anon 1:20
9 End of Chivalry: Carol of Agincourt Anon 1:19
10 End of Chivalry: Black-Smutted Smiths Anon 1:03
11 End of Chivalry: Le Morte d'Arthur Malory 6:40
12 End of Chivalry: Lullaby Skelton 2:58
13 End of Chivalry: They Flee from Me... Wyatt 2:53
14 End of Chivalry: Utopia More 2:17
15 End of Chivalry: The Book of Common Prayer Cranmer 2:48
16 Triumphs of Oriana 2:18
17 Triumphs of Oriana: As You Came from the Holy Land Ralegh 2:11
18 Triumphs of Oriana: The Faerie Queene Edmund Spenser 3:16
19 Triumphs of Oriana: Astrophel and Stella Sidney 2:54
20 Triumphs of Oriana: The Sonnets Shakespeare 4:32
21 Triumphs of Oriana: Three Sonnets: Shall I Compare Thee to a ... Shakespeare 3:02
22 Triumphs of Oriana: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Marlowe 1:15
23 Triumphs of Oriana: To Celia: Drink to Me Only Jonson 1:30
24 Triumphs of Oriana: Busie Old Foole, Unrulie Sunne Donne 3:46
25 Triumphs of Oriana: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Donne 1:25
26 Triumphs of Oriana: Holy Sonnets Donne 1:59
27 Triumphs of Oriana: Elizabethan Drama 2:42
28 Triumphs of Oriana: Dr Faustas Marlowe :58
29 Triumphs of Oriana: William Shakespeare 2:00
30 Triumphs of Oriana: Henry IV, Pt. 1 Shakespeare 4:40
31 Triumphs of Oriana: A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare 1:40
32 Triumphs of Oriana: King Lear Shakespeare 4:40
33 Triumphs of Oriana: The Song of Solomon 2:33
34 Triumphs of Oriana: What Is Truth? Bacon 2:10
35 Triumphs of Oriana: Sermons Donne 2:44
36 Puritan's Progress: To Lucasta, Going to the Wars Lovelace 3:17
37 Puritan's Progress: Love Herbert 2:47
38 Puritan's Progress: The Retreate Vaughan 2:25
39 Puritan's Progress: To Daffodils Herrick 1:32
40 Puritan's Progress: To Althea, from Prison Lovelace :54
41 Puritan's Progress: John Milton 3:42
42 Puritan's Progress: Paradise Lost Milton 1:44
43 Puritan's Progress: The Definition of Love Marvell 2:12
44 Puritan's Progress: To His Coy Mistress Marvell 2:06
45 Puritan's Progress: John Bunyan 1:53
46 Puritan's Progress: The Pilgrim's Progress Bunyan 1:55
47 Restoration: Daniel Defoe 2:35
48 Restoration: Moll Flanders Defoe 3:50
49 Restoration: A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover Wilnmot 1:42
50 Restoration: Song for St Cecilia's Day Dryden 3:44
51 Restoration: The Way of the World Congreve 3:50
52 Augustan Age: Alexander Pope 3:45
53 Augustan Age: The Rape of the Lock Pope 1:04
54 Augustan Age: Essay on Man Pope 2:32
55 Augustan Age: Jonathan Swift 2:15
56 Augustan Age: Gulliver's Travels Swift 2:20
57 Augustan Age: Samuel Johnson 2:39
58 Augustan Age: Preface to Shakespeare Johnson 1:01
59 Augustan Age: Henry Fielding 2:08
60 Augustan Age: The Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend, Mr ... Fielding 2:58
61 Augustan Age: Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard Gray 3:54
62 Romantic Revolution: Auguries of Innocence Blake 3:26
63 Romantic Revolution: Mock on, Mock on Voltaire, Rousseau Blake 1:43
64 Romantic Revolution: Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey Wordsworth 2:07
65 Romantic Revolution: Kubla Khan Coleridge 3:58
66 Romantic Revolution: The Gothic Novel - Mary Shelley Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1:49
67 Romantic Revolution: Jane Austen 2:29
68 Romantic Revolution: Emma Austen 4:07
69 Romantic Revolution: Percy Bysshe Shelley 2:24
70 Romantic Revolution: Ode to the West Wind Shelley :53
71 Romantic Revolution: Fragment/So We'll Go No More A-Roving Gordon 2:20
72 Romantic Revolution: Ode on Melancholy/Ode to a Nightingale/Ode to ... Keats 4:23
73 Faith and Doubt - The Victorian Age: Be Near Me When My Light Is Low Alfred 3:16
74 Faith and Doubt - The Victorian Age: Hard Times/Great Expectations Dickens 6:34
75 Faith and Doubt - The Victorian Age: Children's Literature: The ... 1:59
76 Faith and Doubt - The Victorian Age: Wuthering Heights 6:13
77 Faith and Doubt - The Victorian Age: Dover Beach Arnold 2:03
78 Faith and Doubt - The Victorian Age: Middlemarch Eliot 3:29
79 Faith and Doubt - The Victorian Age: In Memoriam/Tears, Idle Tears Alfred 3:57
80 Faith and Doubt - The Victorian Age: A Pause Rossetti 2:21
81 Faith and Doubt - The Victorian Age: My Last Duchess Browning 3:31
82 Faith and Doubt - The Victorian Age: Recessional Kipling 1:57
83 Age of Anxiety: Neutral Tones/Tess of the d'Urbervilles Hardy 5:49
84 Age of Anxiety: No Worst, There Is None Hopkins 3:01
85 Age of Anxiety: Alfred Edward Housman 1:08
86 Age of Anxiety: Into My Heart an Air That Kills (A Shropshire Lad) Housman :49
87 Age of Anxiety: Henry James 2:20
88 Age of Anxiety: Heart of Darkness Conrad 4:18
89 Age of Anxiety: The War of the Worlds Wells 3:57
90 Age of Anxiety: Odour of Chrysanthemums Lawrence 5:08
91 Age of Anxiety: Futility Owen 4:17
92 Age of Anxiety: The Second Coming Yeats 1:25
93 Age of Anxiety: Dubliners/Finnegans Wake Joyce 4:04
94 Age of Anxiety: To the Lighthouse Woolf 3:14
95 Age of Anxiety: Decline and Fall Waugh 3:24
96 Age of Anxiety: Coming Up for Air Orwell 3:08
97 Age of Anxiety: T. S. Elliot 2:38
98 Age of Anxiety: Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love Auden 1:28
99 Post-War, Post-Modern: Day-Lewis, Cecil 3:00
100 Post-War, Post-Modern: How to Kill Douglas 1:11
101 Post-War, Post-Modern: A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a ... Thomas 1:57
102 Post-War, Post-Modern: Ivy Compton-Burnett/Jean Rhys/Doris Lessing 3:10
103 Post-War, Post-Modern: Memento Mori/Iris Murdoch/Graham Green Spark 4:54
104 Post-War, Post-Modern: The Spire/Angus Wilson/Anthony Powell Golding 6:09
105 Post-War, Post-Modern: Lucky Jim Amis 2:35
106 Post-War, Post-Modern: Coming Larkin 2:54
107 Post-War, Post-Modern: The Metropolitan Railway: Baker Street ... Betjeman 1:59
108 Post-War, Post-Modern: Thrushes Hughes 2:12
109 Post-War, Post-Modern: Empire of the Sun Ballard 4:11
110 Post-War, Post-Modern: Pilate's Wife Duffy 2:19
111 Epilogue 2:09
Series Title: Classic literature with classical music., Non-fiction.
Responsibility: Perry Keenlyside.

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A brief survey of English literature since 1375.

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