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England and Yesterday

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England and Yesterday

by Louise Imogen Guiney

English· 01:12:31· 53 chapters
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
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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    London - I. On First Entering Westminster Abbey

    01:07
  2. Chapter 2

    London - II. Fog

    01:09
  3. Chapter 3

    London - III. Saint Peter-ad-Vincula

    01:16
  4. Chapter 4

    London - IV. Strikers in Hyde Park

    01:20
  5. Chapter 5

    London - V. Changes in the Temple

    01:11
  6. Chapter 6

    London - VI. The Lights of London

    01:11
  7. Chapter 7

    London - VII. Doves

    01:10
  8. Chapter 8

    London - VIII. In the Reading-Room of the British Museum

    01:10
  9. Chapter 9

    London - IX. Sunday Chimes in the City

    01:11
  10. Chapter 10

    London - X. A Porch in Belgravia

    01:22
  11. Chapter 11

    London - XI. York Stairs

    01:12
  12. Chapter 12

    London - XII. In the Docks

    01:06
  13. Chapter 13

    Oxford - I. The Tow-Path

    01:13
  14. Chapter 14

    Oxford - II. The Old Dial of Corpus

    01:14
  15. Chapter 15

    Oxford - III. Ad Antiquarium

    01:19
  16. Chapter 16

    Oxford - IV. Rooks in New College Gardens

    01:18
  17. Chapter 17

    Oxford - V. On the Pre-Reformation Churches about Oxford

    01:17
  18. Chapter 18

    Oxford - VI. On the Same (continued)

    01:19
  19. Chapter 19

    Oxford - VII. A December Walk

    01:31
  20. Chapter 20

    Oxford - VIII. Undertones at Magdalen

    01:10
  21. Chapter 21

    Oxford - IX. Port Meadow

    01:08
  22. Chapter 22

    Oxford - X. Martyrs’ Memorial

    01:25
  23. Chapter 23

    Oxford - XI. A Last View

    01:08
  24. Chapter 24

    Oxford - XII. Retrieval

    01:25
  25. Chapter 25

    A Ballad of Kenelm

    02:36
  26. Chapter 26

    Two Irish Peasant Songs

    03:50
  27. Chapter 27

    In a Ruin, after a Thunderstorm

    01:10
  28. Chapter 28

    To a Child

    01:13
  29. Chapter 29

    In a Perpendicular Church

    01:04
  30. Chapter 30

    A Seventeenth-Century Song

    01:17
  31. Chapter 31

    Columba and the Stork

    01:32
  32. Chapter 32

    The Chantry

    01:21
  33. Chapter 33

    April in Govilon

    01:22
  34. Chapter 34

    On Leaving Winchester

    01:57
  35. Chapter 35

    On the Cenotaph of the Prince Imperial in Saint George’s Chapel

    01:30
  36. Chapter 36

    Of Joan’s Youth

    00:55
  37. Chapter 37

    Passing the Minster

    00:54
  38. Chapter 38

    The Yew-Tree

    01:09
  39. Chapter 39

    Shropshire Landscape

    01:12
  40. Chapter 40

    The Graham Tartan to a Graham

    00:50
  41. Chapter 41

    In a London Street

    01:42
  42. Chapter 42

    Athassel Abbey

    01:43
  43. Chapter 43

    Romans in Dorset

    02:13
  44. Chapter 44

    To Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

    01:15
  45. Chapter 45

    For Izaak Walton

    01:46
  46. Chapter 46

    A Footnote to a Famous Lyric

    01:48
  47. Chapter 47

    A Memory of a Breconshire Valley

    02:14
  48. Chapter 48

    Writ in my Lord Clarendon’s 'History of the Rebellion'

    00:55
  49. Chapter 49

    A Last Word on Shelley

    00:46
  50. Chapter 50

    An Epitaph for William Hazlitt

    01:15
  51. Chapter 51

    Emily Brontë

    00:48
  52. Chapter 52

    Pax Paganica

    01:00
  53. Chapter 53

    Valediction: R. L. S., 1894

    01:22