English literature.
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South wind / by Norman Douglas ; read by Daniel Jacobson.
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Ignatius : his conclave / John Donne.
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The Death of Sir Humphrey Gilbert / by Richard Hakluyt.
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The Vengeance of Cut-Wolf / by Thomas Nashe.
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The Creed of the court / Thomas Dekker and Fulke Greville.
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The Well of the past / John Milton ; read by Hurd Hatfield.
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Elizabethan poetry (Episode 10 of 10)
The final program in the series presents the real songs of the time — readings of poetry and sonnets by Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser and others. Songs and poems heard and recited include How should I your true-love know by Alfred Deller (Ophelia’s song from Shakespeare’s Hamlet), Blame not my lute…