KEENLYSIDE: The History of English Literature

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The Age of Chaucer (more info)
Composed by: James Curnow
Derek Jacobi, reader
Jonathan Keeble, reader
John Shrapnel, actor
Anton Lesser, reader
Teresa Gallagher, reader
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


1. Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales - 07:13
2. Extract from The Miller's Tale - 02:42
3. Extract from The Franklin's Tale - 03:29
4. William Langland - The Book Concerning Piers Plowman - 02:04
5. The 'Gawain' poet - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - 02:55
6. John Gower - Confessio Amantis - 03:34


The End of Chivalry (more info)
Composed by: James Curnow
Derek Jacobi, reader
Jonathan Keeble, reader
John Shrapnel, actor
Anton Lesser, reader
Teresa Gallagher, reader
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


7. John Lydgate - The Duplicity of Women, mid 15th century - 01:53
8. Anon - I Sing of a Maiden, early 15th century - 01:20
9. Anon - Carol of Agincourt, circa 1415 - 01:19
10. Anon - Black-smutted Smiths, mid 15th century - 01:03
11. Sir Thomas Malory - Le Morte d'Arthur from The Death of Arthur - 06:40
12. John Skelton - Lullaby - 02:58
13. Sir Thomas Wyatt - They flee from me... - 02:53
14. Sir Thomas More - Utopia - 02:17
15. Thomas Cranmer - The Book of Common Prayer - 02:48


The Triumphs of Oriana (more info)
Composed by: James Curnow
Derek Jacobi, reader
Jonathan Keeble, reader
John Shrapnel, actor
Anton Lesser, reader
Teresa Gallagher, reader
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


16. The Triumphs of Oriana - 02:18
17. Sir Walter Ralegh - As You Came from the Holy Land - 02:11
18. Edmund Spenser - The Faerie Queene, 1589 - 03:16
19. Sir Philip Sidney - Astrophel and Stella, 1582 - 02:54
20. William Shakespeare - The Sonnets, 1609 - 04:32
21. Three Sonnets - Shall I compare thee... / The expense of spirit... / Let me not to the marriage... - 03:02
22. Christopher Marlowe - The Passionate Shepherd to his Love - 01:15
23. Ben Jonson - To Celia: Drink to Me Only - 01:30
24. John Donne - Busie Old Foole, Unrulie Sunne - 03:45
25. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning - 01:25
26. Holy Sonnets - 01:59
27. Elizabethan Drama - 02:42
28. Christopher Marlow - Dr Faustus - 00:58
29. William Shakespeare - 02:00

Puritan's Progress (more info)
Composed by: James Curnow
Derek Jacobi, reader
Jonathan Keeble, reader
John Shrapnel, actor
Anton Lesser, reader
Teresa Gallagher, reader
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


1. Richard Lovelace - To Lucasta, Going to the Wars - 03:17
2. George Herbert - Love - 02:47
3. Henry Vaughan - The Retreate - 02:25
4. Robert Herrick - To Daffodils - 01:32
5. Richard Lovelace - To Althea, from Prison - 00:54
6. John Milton - 03:42
7. Paradise Lost - 01:44
8. Andrew Marvell - The Definition of Love - 02:12
9. To His Coy Mistress - 02:06
10. John Bunyan - 01:53
11. The Pilgrim's Progress - 01:55


The Triumphs of Oriana (more info)
Composed by: James Curnow
Derek Jacobi, reader
Jonathan Keeble, reader
John Shrapnel, actor
Anton Lesser, reader
Teresa Gallagher, reader
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


12. Henry IV Part I - 04:40
13. A Midsummer Night's Dream - 01:40
14. King Lear - 04:40
15. The Authorised Version of the Bible - The Song of Solomon - 02:33
16. Francis Bacon - What is Truth? - 02:10
17. John Donne - Sermons - 02:44


Restoration (more info)
Composed by: James Curnow
Derek Jacobi, reader
Jonathan Keeble, reader
John Shrapnel, actor
Anton Lesser, reader
Teresa Gallagher, reader
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


18. Daniel Defoe - 02:35
19. Moll Flanders - 03:50
20. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester - A Song of a Young Lady to her Ancient Lover - 01:42
21. John Dryden - Song for St Cecilia's Day - 03:44
22. William Congreve - The Way of the World - 03:50


The Augustan Age (more info)
Composed by: James Curnow
Derek Jacobi, reader
Jonathan Keeble, reader
John Shrapnel, actor
Anton Lesser, reader
Teresa Gallagher, reader
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


23. The Augustan Age - Alexander Pope - 03:45
24. The Rape of the Lock - 01:04
25. Essay on Man - 02:32
26. Jonathan Swift - 02:15
27. Gulliver's Travels - 02:20
28. Samuel Johnson - 02:39
29. Preface to Shakespeare - 01:01
30. Henry Fielding - 02:06
31. The Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his Friend, Mr Abraham Adams - 02:58

The Age of Anxiety (more info)
Composed by: James Curnow
Derek Jacobi, reader
Jonathan Keeble, reader
John Shrapnel, actor
Anton Lesser, reader
Teresa Gallagher, reader
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


1. Thomas Hardy - Neutral Tones / Tess of the d'Urbervilles - 05:49
2. Gerard Manley Hopkins - No wrost, there is none - 03:01
3. Alfred Edward Housman - 01:08


Romantic Revolution (more info)
Composed by: James Curnow
Derek Jacobi, reader
Jonathan Keeble, reader
John Shrapnel, actor
Anton Lesser, reader
Teresa Gallagher, reader
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


4. William Blake - Auguries of Innocence - 03:26
5. Mock on, Mock on Voltaire, Rousseau - 01:43
6. William Wordsworth - Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintem Abbey - 02:07
7. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan - 03:58
8. The Gothic Novel - Mary Shelley Frankenstein - 01:49
9. Jane Austen - 02:29
10. Emma - 04:07
11. Percy Bysshe Shelley - 02:24
12. Ode to the West Wind - 00:53
13. George Gordon, Lord Byron - Fragment - 02:20
14. John Keats - Ode on Melancholy / Ode to a Nightingale / Ode on a Grecian Um - 04:23


Faith and Doubt - The Victorian Age (more info)
Composed by: James Curnow
Derek Jacobi, reader
Jonathan Keeble, reader
John Shrapnel, actor
Anton Lesser, reader
Teresa Gallagher, reader
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


15. Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Be near me when my light is low - 03:16
16. Charles Dickens - Hard Times / Great Expectations - 06:34
17. Children's literature - The Detective Novel - 01:59
18. The Brontes: Charlotte Bronte; Ann Bronte: Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights - 06:13
19. Matthew Arnold - Dover Beach - 02:03
20. George Eliot - Middlemarch - 03:29
21. Alfred, Lord Tennyson - In Memoriam, Tears, Idle Tears - 03:57
22. Christina Rossetti - A Pause - 02:21
23. Robert Browning - My Last Duchess - 03:31
24. Rudyard Kipling - Recessional - 01:57


The Augustan Age (more info)
Composed by: James Curnow
Derek Jacobi, reader
Jonathan Keeble, reader
John Shrapnel, actor
Anton Lesser, reader
Teresa Gallagher, reader
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


25. Thomas Gray - Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard - 03:54

The Age of Anxiety (more info)
Composed by: James Curnow
Derek Jacobi, reader
Jonathan Keeble, reader
John Shrapnel, actor
Anton Lesser, reader
Teresa Gallagher, reader
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


1. Into my Heart an air that kills (A Shropshire Lad) - 00:49
2. Henry James - 02:20
3. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness - 04:18
4. Herbert George Wells - The War of the Worlds - 03:57
5. David Herbert Lawrence - Odour of Chrysanthemums - 05:08
6. Wilfred Owen - Futility - 04:17
7. William Butler Yeats - The Second Coming, Collected Poems - 01:25
8. James Joyce - Dubliners / Finnegans Wake - 04:04
9. Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse - 03:14
10. Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall - 03:24
11. George Orwell - Coming Up for Air - 03:08
12. T.S. Eliot - 02:38
13. Wystan Hugh Auden - Lay your sleeping head, my love - 01:28


Post-War, Post-Modern (more info)
Composed by: James Curnow
Derek Jacobi, reader
Jonathan Keeble, reader
John Shrapnel, actor
Anton Lesser, reader
Teresa Gallagher, reader
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


14. Cecil Day-Lewis - 03:00
15. Keith Douglas - How to Kill - 01:12
16. Dylan Thomas - A Refusal to Mourn the Death, By Fire, of a Child in London - 01:57
17. Ivy Compton-Burnett / Jean Rhys / Doris Lessing - 03:10
18. Muriel Spark - Memento Mori / Iris Murdoch / Graham Green - 04:55
19. William Golding - The Spire / Angus Wilson / Anthony Powell - 06:09
20. Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim - 02:35
21. Philip Larkin - Coming - 02:54
22. Sir John Betjeman - The Metropolitan Railway: Baker Street Station Buffet - 01:59
23. Ted Hughes - Thrushes - 02:13
24. James Graham Ballard - Empire of the Sun - 04:10
25. Carol Ann Duffy - Pilate's Wife - 02:19
26. Epilogue - 02:10

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