Sonnets of This Century
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Length 5 h 16 min
Chapters 125
First published 1887
This comprehensive anthology of English sonnets of the Nineteenth Century, edited and arranged by William Sharp, was published in 1887. It contains 270 poems by 126 different authors, ranging from the most celebrated poets, like Keats, Shelley and Wordsworth to some who are extremely obscure. Sharp outlines the purpose of the collection as follows: "For the concise expression of an isolated poetic thought an intellectual or sensuous wave keenly felt, emotionally and rhythmically the sonnet would seem to be the best medium. To bring this more clearly home to the mind of the reader unacquainted with the true scope of our sonnet-literature and of the technique of the sonnet itself, and to illustrate its development and capacity, is the aim of this collection." - Summary by Algy Pug
Chapters
1
Dedication by William Sharp Read by Algy Pug 2:52
2
Three Sonnets by William Allingham Read by Suzanne Carol 3:50
3
Three Sonnets by by Matthew Arnold Read by Alan Mapstone 3:44
4
Four sonnets by Alfred Austin Read by Adrian Stephens 4:42
5
Old Year Leaves by Henry Thomas Mackenzie Bell Read by dwmillican 1:02
6
Love's Depth by Louisa S. Bevington Read by Stunning 1:08
7
Wishes of Youth by Samuel Laman Blanchard Read by Michele Fry 1:16
8
Three sonnets by Mathilde Blind Read by Adrian Stephens 3:24
9
Five sonnets by Wilfrid Scrawen Blunt Read by Adrian Stephens 5:07
10
Ostend by William Lisle Bowles Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi 1:03
11
Omnia Mutantur by Erasmus Henry Brodie Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi 1:04
12
Requiescant by Oliver Madox Brown Read by Alan Mapstone 1:25
13
Five sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Larry Wilson 4:37
14
Two sonnets by Robert Browning Read by Alan Mapstone 2:51
15
Two sonnets by Robert Buchanan Read by Adrian Stephens 2:14
16
On Echo and Silence by Samuel Egerton Brydges Read by ashley2786 1:18
17
Chillon by Lord Byron Read by Alan Mapstone 1:27
18
Two sonnets by Hall Caine Read by Bob Gonzalez 2:44
19
The Haunted Shore by Wathen Marks Wilks Call Read by ashley2786 1:16
20
The First Sight of Spring by John Clare Read by Alan Mapstone 1:22
21
Two sonnets by Herbert E. Clarke Read by BenjHartin 2:26
22
Five sonnets by Hartley Coleridge Read by MoonLylith 5:40
23
Nature by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Read by Algy Pug 1:18
24
Phantasmion's Quest of Iarine by Sara Coleridge Read by Stunning 1:22
25
Cleopatra by Bessie Craigmyle Read by Alan Mapstone 1:25
26
Guns of Peace by Dinah Maria Craik Read by Alan Mapstone 1:35
27
Three sonnets by Sir Aubrey (Hunt) de Vere Read by Adrian Stephens 3:22
28
Five sonnets by Aubrey Thomas de Vere Read by Adrian Stephens 5:32
29
Humanity by Richard Watson Dixon Read by De Anna Lee 1:17
30
Three sonnets by Sydney Thompson Dobell Read by Alan Mapstone 3:45
31
Don Quixote by Henry Austin Dobson Read by Alan Mapstone 1:28
32
Two sonnets by Thomas Doubleday Read by Stunning 2:11
33
Five sonnets by Edward Dowden Read by Scotty Smith 5:37
34
Rest by John Charles Earle Read by Stunning 1:18
35
Fountains Abbey by Ebenezer Elliott Read by Bruce Kachuk 1:20
36
Silence by Joseph Ellis Read by Algy Pug 1:23
37
Three sonnets by Henry Ellison Read by Alicia Wellman 3:19
38
Two sonnets by Frederick William Faber Read by Duchess1353 2:01
39
Ad Matrem by Julian Henry Charles Fane Read by Gloria Loughry 1:15
40
In Prospect of Death by William Freeland Read by Bruce Kachuk 1:18
41
Two sonnets by Richard Garnett Read by Algy Pug 2:15
42
Intra Muros by Mary Clarissa Gillington Read by mjgeronimo 1:34
43
Three sonnets by Edmund William Gosse Read by ToddHW 3:15
44
Two sonnets by David Gray Read by Algy Pug 2:20
45
Venus Urania by Thomas Gordon Hake Read by TCraven 1:10
46
Written in Edinburgh by Arthur Henry Hallam Read by Alan Mapstone 1:25
47
Four sonnets by Eugene Lee-Hamilton Read by Winnifred Assmann 4:14
48
Two sonnets by Sir William Rowan Hamilton Read by Stunning 2:10
49
Two sonnets by John Hanmer Read by Winnifred Assmann 2:14
50
Pater Vester Pascit Illa by Robert Stephen Hawker Read by Algy Pug 1:19
51
Truth and Beauty by John Hogben Read by Bruce Kachuk 1:16
52
Night by Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes Read by Bruce Kachuk 1:18
53
Two sonnets by Thomas Hood Read by Lee Vogler 2:07
54
The Times to Come by Charles A. Houfe Read by Algy Pug 1:12
55
Happiness by Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton Read by chrisHarrington1969 1:06
56
Two sonnets by Leigh Hunt Read by Alan Mapstone 2:44
57
One Dead by John William Inchbold Read by GMGDave 1:19
58
An Ancient Chess King by Jean Ingelow Read by Alan Mapstone 1:25
59
High Summer by Ebenezer Jones Read by BMabie 1:14
60
Six Sonnets by John Keats Read by Cynthia Malone 5:39
61
Art Thou already Weary of the Way by Frances Anne Kemble Read by Michele Fry 1:22
62
Love's Martyrdom by Joseph Knight Read by DimbleB 1:06
63
Two sonnets by Andrew Lang Read by Algy Pug 2:06
64
Four sonnets by Edward Cracroft Lefroy Read by jrwhalen 4:10
65
Love Death and Time by Frederick Locker-Lampson Read by Stunning 1:24
66
Evening by Robert, Earl of Lytton Read by Algy Pug 1:17
67
Six sonnets by Philip Bourke Marston Read by SoundsLikeJack 6:20
68
Two sonnets by John Westland Marston Read by Bruce Kachuk 2:26
69
Lucifer in Starlight by George Meredith Read by Algy Pug 1:15
70
Three sonnets by Alice Meynell Read by Winnifred Assmann 3:14
71
Life and Death by William Cosmo Monkhouse Read by Alan Mapstone 1:28
72
Three sonnets by Ernest James Myers Read by Stunning 3:16
73
Three sonnets by Frederic William Henry Myers Read by Stunning 3:05
74
Pessimism by Edith Nesbit Read by Winnifred Assmann 1:17
75
Substance and Shadow by John Henry Newman Read by Alan Mapstone 1:29
76
Two sonnets by John Nichol Read by Algy Pug 2:14
77
Two sonnets by James Ashcroft Noble Read by Algy Pug 2:41
78
The Rainbow by Edward Henry Noel Read by ashley2786 1:10
79
By the Sea by Roden Noel Read by ashley2786 1:11
80
In Memory of F C C by Sir Francis Palgrave Read by Larry Wilson 1:12
81
Timor Mortis Conturbat Me by Joseph Noel Paton Read by Alan Mapstone 1:29
82
Three sonnets by John Payne Read by Algy Pug 3:28
83
Four sonnets by Emily Pfeiffer Read by mjgeronimo 4:58
84
Two sonnets by Bryan Waller Procter Read by MoonLylith 2:37
85
Two sonnets by Marc-André Raffalovich Read by MoonLylith 2:34
86
The Student's Chamber by Ernest Percival Rhys Read by Alan Mapstone 1:34
87
The Potato Harvest by Charles George Douglas Roberts Read by Alan Mapstone 1:34
88
The Lost Ideal of the World by Eric Sutherland Robertson Read by Algy Pug 1:16
89
Three sonnets by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson Read by mjgeronimo 4:18
90
Three sonnets by William Caldwell Roscoe Read by dc 3:01
91
The Harvest Moon by William Stanley Roscoe Read by Larry Wilson 1:07
92
Five sonnets by Christina Rossetti Read by De Anna Lee 5:10
93
12 sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Read by Larry Wilson 11:24
94
Two sonnets by William Michael Rossetti Read by Algy Pug 2:27
95
At Lemnos by Thomas O'Neill Russell Read by Alan Mapstone 1:29
96
Six sonnets by William Bell Scott Read by SoundsLikeJack 6:02
97
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by Algy Pug 1:21
98
A Chill in Summer by George Augusta Simcox Read by Elizabeth Copnall 1:16
99
Beauty by Alexander Smith Read by Agnes Robert Behr 1:04
100
Winter by Robert Southey Read by Agnes Robert Behr 1:01
101
The Touch of Life by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Alan Mapstone 1:23
102
Two sonnets by Charles Strong Read by dc 2:06
103
Five sonnets by Algernon Charles Swinburne Read by Larry Wilson 4:56
104
Six sonnets by John Addington Symons Read by MoonLylith 7:40
105
Two sonnets by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Alan Mapstone 2:38
106
A Recusant by James Thomson Read by Alan Mapstone 1:22
107
Forgetfulness by R. A. Thorpe Read by nes166 1:03
108
Two sonnets by Lord Thurlow Read by Bruce Kachuk 2:16
109
Three sonnets by John Todhunter Read by Bruce Kachuk 3:26
110
The Heart's Sacredness by Richard Chenevix Trench Read by Algy Pug 1:14
111
In Memoriam - Richard Chenevix Trench by Frederic Herbert Trench Read by Algy Pug 1:21
112
Five Sonnets by Charles Tennyson Turner Read by Adrian Stephens 5:19
113
Two sonnets by Samuel Waddington Read by Adrian Stephens 2:33
114
Two sonnets by William Watson Read by Adrian Stephens 2:15
115
Six Sonnets by Theodore Watts-Dunton Read by Adrian Stephens 6:48
116
The Brook Rhine by Augusta Webster Read by Bruce Kachuk 1:16
117
To Night by Joseph Blanco White Read by Bruce Kachuk 1:18
118
What art Thou by Henry Kirke White Read by Bruce Kachuk 1:19
119
As Yonder Lamp by Charles Whitehead Read by Bruce Kachuk 1:23
120
Time and Death by William Henry Whitworth Read by Bruce Kachuk 1:27
121
Libertatis Sacra Fames by Oscar Wlde Read by Alan Mapstone 1:22
122
The Evening Cloud by John Wilson Read by Bruce Kachuk 1:14
123
Frosted Trees by Richard Wilton Read by Bruce Kachuk 1:15
124
Two sonnets by James Chapman Woods Read by Larry Wilson 2:12
125
Thirteen Sonnets by William Wordsworth Read by Aaron Zimmerman 14:01
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