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The Canterbury Tales (Wordsworth Poetry Library)

The Canterbury Tales (Wordsworth Poetry Library)

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The Canterbury Tales tells the story of a group of 30 pilgrims who meet at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, and travel together to visit the shrine of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury cathedral. The tavern host, who accompanies them, suggests that they amuse one another along the way by telling stories.
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Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.The Canterbury Tales tells the story of a group of 30 pilgrims who meet at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, and travel together to visit the shrine of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury cathedral. The tavern host, who accompanies them, suggests that they amuse one another along the way by telling stories.
Track Listing

The Foundations Of The English Spirit

Introduction By Louis Untermeyer

Earliest English Works

The Battle Of Brunanburh

Wulf And Eadwacer

Geoffrey Chaucer

Canterbury Tales (Excerpts)

Ballade Of Good Counsel

The Early Popular Ballad

Bonny Barbara Allan

Cherry Tree Carol

Early Songs

Cuccu Song

The Nightingale

Toward The Golden Age

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)

The Hind

Patience

Disdain

Sir Edward Dyer (1550-1607)

My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is

Cristopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

The Passionate Shepherd To His Love

Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)

The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd

The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage

His Epitath

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

From Amoretti

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

Sonnets From Astrophel And Stella

My True Love Hath My Heart

Thomas Lodge (1558-1625)

Rosalynde's Madrigal

The Mirror Of Mankind

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Sonnets

1

18

29

94

106

116

129

Shakespeare's Songs

O Mistress Mine

Who Is Sylvia?

Hark! Hark! The Lark

Spring

Fairy Songs

Songs Of The Greenwood

Country Song

A Sea Dirge

Ophelia's Songs

Fear No More

Anatomy Of The World

Thomas Campion (1567-1619)

There Is A Garden In Her Face

Rose-Cheeked Laura

Corinna

Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)

Character Of A Happy Life

Ben Jonson (1573-1637)

Lovel's Song

To Celia

Echo's Song

Hymn To Diana

Clerimont's Song

Oak And Lily

John Donne (1573-1631)

The Sun Is Rising

Break Of Day

Song

Batter My Heart

Death, Be Not Proud

John Webster (1580-1625)

Cornelia's Song

Nets To Catch The Wind

Gallants, Puritans, Divines

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

The Argument Of His Book

To The Virgins To Make Much Of Time

To Daffodils

Delight In Disorder

Upon Julia's Clothes

George Herbert (1593-1633)

The Pulley

The Collar

The Elixir

Love

Gallants, Puritans, Divines (Continued)

John Milton (1608-1674)

Haste Thee Nymph

Song

Lady's Song

At A Solemn Musick

From Samson Agonistes

On His Blindness

Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)

Why So Pale And Wan

The Constant Lover

Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)

To Althea From Prison

To Lucasta

Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)

Shepherds' Hymn

Upon The Bleeding Crucifix

Andrew Marvel (1621-1678)

To His Coy Mistress

Definition Of Love

Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)

The Retreat

The World

The Rise And Fall Of Elegance

John Dryden (1631-1700)

A Song For Saint Cecelia's Day

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

From: Essay On Criticism

From: Essay On Man

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

The Village

Song

Pure Vision, Pure Song

William Blake (1757-1827)

How Sweet I Roamed

My Silks And Fine Array

Introduction

The Lamb

The Tyger

Love's Secret

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

My Luve

The Banks O' Doon

Sweet Afton

To A Mouse

A Man's A Man For A' That

Spirit Of Revolution And Romance

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

The Daffodils

To A Skylark

My Heart Leaps Up

Lucy

Sonnets

The World Is Too Much With Us

Composed Upon Westminster Bridge

To Milton

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Kubla Khan

George Gordon (Lord Byron) 1788-1824

When We Two Parted

She Walks In Beauty

The Destruction Of Sennacherib

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

A New World

To A Skylark

Ode To The West Wind

Ozymandias

Adonais (1, 39, And Last Two Stanzas)

John Keats (1795-1821)

On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer

Ode On A Grecian Urn

Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast

Faith, Doubt, And Democracy

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)

Thanatopsis

To A Waterfowl

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

The Rhodora

Concord Hymn

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

Winter Day

Winter Night

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Hymn To The Night

The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

The Day Is Done

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

The Last Leaf

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

She Came And Went

Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)

To Helen

Annabel Lee

The City In The Sea

Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1849)

From In Memoriam

The Splendor Falls

Tears, Idle Tears

Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal

Break, Break, Break

The Eagle

Crossing The Bar

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

The Lost Leader

Song (From "Pippa Passes")

Home Thoughts From Abroad

My Last Duchess

Incident Of The French Camp

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

Sonnets From The Portuguese

1

6

7

43

Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)

Say Not The Struggle Naught Availeth

Challenge To Tradition

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

From "Song Of Myself": Stanzas 1, 6, 21, 31

O Captain! My Captain!

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

Dover Beach

Christina Rossetti (1830-1886)

Uphill

When I Am Dead

Sleeping At Last

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

The Soul Selects

My Life Closed Twice

The Mountains Grow Unnoticed

I Never Saw A Moor

A Narrow Fellow In The Grass

There Is No Frigate Like A Book

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)

The Garden Of Proserpine

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

The Darkling Thrush

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

Pied Beauty

William Ernest Henly (1849-1903)

Invictus

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

The Celestial Surgeon

Requiem

Edwin Markham (1852-1940)

The Man With The Hoe

Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)

From: The Ballad Of Reading Gaol (Excerpt)

Francis Thompson (1859-1907)

From: The Hound Of Heaven (Excerpt)

Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936)

With Rue My Heart Is Laden

Loveliest Of Trees

When I Was One-And-Twenty

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

The Lake Isle Of Innisfree

The Wild Swans At Coole

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Mandalay

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