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Unabridged Narrative Poem
1816
In which our hero, the most Romantic of all the Romantic poets, takes on the end of the world.
Written in Geneva, Switzerland in the summer of 1816, when Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and John Polidori spent their evenings telling each other ghost stories. The resulting tales included Shelley's Frankenstein, Polidori's creation of the vampire/vampyre genre (based on a novel fragment of Byron's), and this gloomy, speculative verse.
Read by Alex Wilson.
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5 minutes, 30 seconds
Unabridged Formal Poetry
1798
A quiet, conversational poem by one of the founders of the Romantic Movement. The frost is both harsh like reality and comforting like the speaker's imagination, and the poem deals with the juxtaposition of being present and of longing.
The University of Alberta offers an in-depth examination of this poem as a joint project between the Department of Psychology and Department of English. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "Frost at Midnight"
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6 minutes, 6 seconds
Unabridged Essay
1779
Wit and wisdom from the founding father best known for it. An essay on the value of... things. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "The Whistle"
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6 minutes
Unabridged Formal Poetry
1846
Two poems based on the Arthurian legend, written by the founder of trancendentalism. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "Merlin & Merlin II"
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5 minutes, 13 seconds
Unabridged Formal Poetry
1816
A confessional poem by Shelley, written during the summer he spent on the shores of Lake Geneva. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"
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