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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …

Doctor Jack's Soapbox Seminars

Read by John C. Adler, Ph.D.

John C. Adler, Ph.D.

What if the cataclysmic Tunguska explosion of 1908 was caused, not by a meteor or a comet, but by a microscopic black hole? ... Well, like a…

Mice & Other Poems

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Gerald Bullett

Gerald William Bullett was a British man of letters. He was known as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic and poet. He wrote bot…

Oriel College

Read by John Stevenson and Moira Wallace

John Stevenson and Moira Wallace

University of Oxford Podcasts

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In The Bridal of Triermain

Read by Nathan

Sir Walter Scott

Scott's The Bridal of Triermain is a rhymed, romantic, narrative poem which weaves together elements of popular English legend using dramati…

1 - Tristram and Iseult Part 1: Tristram

In Tristram and Iseult & Sohrab and Rustum

Read by Nathan

Matthew Arnold

Tristam & Iseult is a narrative poem containing strong romantic and tragic themes: and was first published in 1852 by Matthew Arnold. Th…

Quatrains 1-20

In The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Fitzgerald 5th edition)

Read by Nathan

Omar Khayyám, Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. and Omar Khayyám

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is so-named from the Persian word rubáiyát - a Persian word denoting a speci…

Corona, La (The Cycle of 'The Crown')

In A Selection of Divine Poems

Read by Nathan

John Donne

John Donne was an English Jacobean preacher, sometime lawyer, later in life a Member of Parliament and Royal Chaplain. Marrying for love aga…

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