Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) : Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, best known for his novel Gulliver's Travels Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) : Anglo-Irish writer and poet, best...
WH Auden recites 'Doggerel by a Senior Citizen', 1969 My Eden landscapes and their climes Are constructs from Edwardian times, When bath-rooms took up lots of space, And, before...
0 joy! that in our embers is something that doth live, That Nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which...
Out of my way all you foxes, Owls, beetles... You all stay out from these feet! I've got a long way to go... Long way to go... Seems like there is chains about my feet. Something always take a...
( theme music playing ) ( light snoring ) ( rap music playing on radio ) ( distant rap music playing ) WHAT'S THAT? I GOT A MYSTERIOUS PACKAGE, POSTMARKED LAS VEGAS. OH, "BAUME...
Professor Langdon Hammer: W.H. Auden, Wystan Hugh Auden. There really is no more dramatic contrast in this course, I think, than to go from late Stevens to early Auden. Stevens is born twenty years...
John Sherman and Dhoya by William Butler Yeats Author's Preface GANCONAGH'S APOLOGY The maker of these stories has been told that he must not bring them to you himself. He has asked me...
The Second Coming by W. B Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The...
A knight from Spain Rides on the road At the foot of a mountain Singing his love for a young maid: Turn this way, fair maid, Merely turn a bit to me, if you please. Sweet hope of mine, Since I die for...