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Read by Tim McInnerny
FOOLISH prater, what dost thouSo early at my window do?Cruel bird, thou’st ta’en awayA dream out of my arms to-day;A dream that…
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400) is often called the “Father of English literature” and is best known for The Canterbury Tales, a collection…
Helen Mackay was educated in New York and moved to Paris after her marriage to Archibald Mackay, spending almost fifty years there….
Alfred Noyes CBE was an English poet, short-story writer and playwright. Noyes was best known for his anti-war ballads.
George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (he inherited the title at the age of ten) was born in London in 1788. A poet,…
Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830, Emily Dickinson, unpublished in her lifetime, is one of America’s greatest nineteenth-century poets. Read more.
Larkin was born in Coventry on the 9th August, 1922, and educated there, and at Oxford University. Shortly after university he became…
