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Short Poetry Collection 200

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Poetry
Chapter: 65 | Listen:

This is a collection of 65 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for January 2020. [chương_files]

From Queen’s Gardens – A Chorus of Many Voices

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Poetry
Chapter: 28 | Listen: 3

This is the final part of From Queen’s Gardens. The previous four parts were collections of poetry by eminent English poets: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Jean Ingelow, Adelaide A. Procter, and Christina Rossetti. This final part of the same volume is a collection of individual poems by less well-known female poets, or, sometimes, well-known writers known more for their novels than for their poetry. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

Sestinas

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Poetry
Chapter: 101 | Listen:

The sestina has enjoyed intermittent popularity in English writing and translation since the sixteenth century, and this selection highlights some of the varied ways the form has been used and adapted. – Summary by Newgatenovelist [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 207

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Poetry
Chapter: 70 | Listen: 1

This is a collection of 70 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for August 2020. [chương_files]

28/07/2024

Magna Carta Commemoration Essays

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Essay/Short nonfiction, History
Chapter: 19 | Listen:

On 15th June 1215 the Magna Carta was sealed under oath by King John at Runnymede, on the bank of the River Thames near Windsor, England. 2015 is the 800th anniversary of this charter, which led eventually to the rule of constitutional law in England and beyond. This book of essays on various aspects of the Charter was written by distinguished academics for the Royal Historical Society to commemorate the 700th anniversary of Magna Carta. N. B. The readers in this project are not scholars of mediaeval Latin or French. Where there are passages or phrases of Latin and Old French, we have endeavoured to make them clear, but make no claim to authentic pronunciation. [chương_files]