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Volume 3

By Audiobooks, Penguin

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Known as the Age of Reason, the 18th century was an ear of relative peace, prosperity and growth. The poetry of this time is characterized on the one hand by urban satire--the rapier genius of Pope, the biting irony of Swift; on the other hand there existed the pastoral poetic world of rural meditation found in Gray's "Elegy," Goldsmith's "The Deserted Village," and the odes of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. 2 cassettes.

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ISBN
978-0-14086-132-7
Publisher
Penguin Audio


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Reviewed on December 1, 1996

This anthology features a number of good performances, such as Judi Dench's feisty interpretation of Swift's delightful but little known "To Their Excellencies the Lords Justice of Ireland," Alan Cumming's spirited delivery of a song from Sheridan's play The School for Scandal, and Crawford Logan's sensitive reading of Samuel Johnson's beautifully austere "The Vanity of Human Wishes." But despite the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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