England and Yesterday


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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 (1 hr 12 min)

Chapters

London - I. On First Entering Westminster Abbey 1:07 Read by Tomas Peter
London - II. Fog 1:09 Read by Sonia
London - III. Saint Peter-ad-Vincula 1:16 Read by Eva Davis (- 2025)
London - IV. Strikers in Hyde Park 1:20 Read by Eva Davis (- 2025)
London - V. Changes in the Temple 1:11 Read by Eva Davis (- 2025)
London - VI. The Lights of London 1:11 Read by Sonia
London - VII. Doves 1:10 Read by Eva Davis (- 2025)
London - VIII. In the Reading-Room of the British Museum 1:10 Read by Sonia
London - IX. Sunday Chimes in the City 1:11 Read by Tomas Peter
London - X. A Porch in Belgravia 1:22 Read by Eva Davis (- 2025)
London - XI. York Stairs 1:12 Read by Sonia
London - XII. In the Docks 1:06 Read by Sonia
Oxford - I. The Tow-Path 1:13 Read by Tomas Peter
Oxford - II. The Old Dial of Corpus 1:14 Read by Eva Davis (- 2025)
Oxford - III. Ad Antiquarium 1:19 Read by Eva Davis (- 2025)
Oxford - IV. Rooks in New College Gardens 1:18 Read by Eva Davis (- 2025)
Oxford - V. On the Pre-Reformation Churches about Oxford 1:17 Read by Sonia
Oxford - VI. On the Same (continued) 1:19 Read by Sonia
Oxford - VII. A December Walk 1:31 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Oxford - VIII. Undertones at Magdalen 1:10 Read by Tomas Peter
Oxford - IX. Port Meadow 1:08 Read by Sonia
Oxford - X. Martyrs’ Memorial 1:25 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Oxford - XI. A Last View 1:08 Read by Sonia
Oxford - XII. Retrieval 1:25 Read by Bruce Kachuk
A Ballad of Kenelm 2:36 Read by Nemo
Two Irish Peasant Songs 3:50 Read by Sonia
In a Ruin, after a Thunderstorm 1:10 Read by Sonia
To a Child 1:13 Read by RecordingPerson
In a Perpendicular Church 1:04 Read by Tomas Peter
A Seventeenth-Century Song 1:17 Read by Sonia
Columba and the Stork 1:32 Read by Eva Davis (- 2025)
The Chantry 1:21 Read by Sonia
April in Govilon 1:22 Read by Tomas Peter
On Leaving Winchester 1:57 Read by Nemo
On the Cenotaph of the Prince Imperial in Saint George’s Chapel 1:30 Read by Eva Davis (- 2025)
Of Joan’s Youth 0:55 Read by Eva Davis (- 2025)
Passing the Minster 0:54 Read by Melanie T
The Yew-Tree 1:09 Read by Eva Davis (- 2025)
Shropshire Landscape 1:12 Read by Nemo
The Graham Tartan to a Graham 0:50 Read by Sonia
In a London Street 1:42 Read by Sonia
Athassel Abbey 1:43 Read by Tomas Peter
Romans in Dorset 2:13 Read by Sonia
To Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 1:15 Read by Sonia
For Izaak Walton 1:46 Read by Sonia
A Footnote to a Famous Lyric 1:48 Read by Sonia
A Memory of a Breconshire Valley 2:14 Read by Eva Davis (- 2025)
Writ in my Lord Clarendon’s 'History of the Rebellion' 0:55 Read by Tomas Peter
A Last Word on Shelley 0:46 Read by Eva Davis (- 2025)
An Epitaph for William Hazlitt 1:15 Read by Eva Davis (- 2025)
Emily Brontë 0:48 Read by Eva Davis (- 2025)
Pax Paganica 1:00 Read by Eva Davis (- 2025)
Valediction: R. L. S., 1894 1:22 Read by Eva Davis (- 2025)