Books › England and Yesterday England and Yesterday Louise Imogen Guiney (1861–1920)
Read by Tomas Peter, Sonia, Eva Davis (d. 2025) and 4 others
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Louise Imogen Guiney was an American poet, well-connected in the art of her time. Much of her life was spent in England, mostly at London and Oxford. This volume of poems contains, among other poems, 24 sonnets written in those two cities. - Summary by Carolin
Chapters 1 London - I. On First Entering Westminster Abbey 1 min 2 London - II. Fog 1 min 3 London - III. Saint Peter-ad-Vincula 1 min 4 London - IV. Strikers in Hyde Park 1 min 5 London - V. Changes in the Temple 1 min 6 London - VI. The Lights of London 1 min 7 London - VII. Doves 1 min 8 London - VIII. In the Reading-Room of the British Museum 1 min 9 London - IX. Sunday Chimes in the City 1 min 10 London - X. A Porch in Belgravia 1 min 11 London - XI. York Stairs 1 min 12 London - XII. In the Docks 1 min 13 Oxford - I. The Tow-Path 1 min 14 Oxford - II. The Old Dial of Corpus 1 min 15 Oxford - III. Ad Antiquarium 1 min 16 Oxford - IV. Rooks in New College Gardens 1 min 17 Oxford - V. On the Pre-Reformation Churches about Oxford 1 min 18 Oxford - VI. On the Same (continued) 1 min 19 Oxford - VII. A December Walk 1 min 20 Oxford - VIII. Undertones at Magdalen 1 min 21 Oxford - IX. Port Meadow 1 min 22 Oxford - X. Martyrs’ Memorial 1 min 23 Oxford - XI. A Last View 1 min 24 Oxford - XII. Retrieval 1 min 25 A Ballad of Kenelm 2 min 26 Two Irish Peasant Songs 3 min 27 In a Ruin, after a Thunderstorm 1 min 28 To a Child 1 min 29 In a Perpendicular Church 1 min 30 A Seventeenth-Century Song 1 min Show all 53 chapters Recording: LibriVox · public domain
