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  • Poems of 1912-13-Thomas Hardy

    Poems of 1912-13-Thomas Hardy
    2026/11/14
    Poems of 1912-13 by Thomas Hardy.

    Thomas Hardy wrote these poems in response to the death of his first wife. They are considered to be among his finest work.

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    27 分
  • Travels by the Fireside-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Travels by the Fireside-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    2026/11/13
    Travels by the Fireside by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

    This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 6, 2012. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator. He predominantly wrote lyric poems which are known for their musicality and which often presented stories of mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet of his day and also had success overseas. He has been criticized, however, for imitating European styles and writing specifically for the masses.

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    40 分
  • Henry the Seventh-James Gairdner

    Henry the Seventh-James Gairdner
    2026/11/12
    Henry the Seventh by James Gairdner.

    Henry VII, the founder of the Tudor dynasty, less known than his son, Henry VIII, or granddaughter Elizabeth I, is often overlooked. This King toppled the ruling House that had held England's throne for over four hundred years, the Plantagenets, and took a divided, war torn country and made one of the richest in Europe by the time of his death in 1609. Henry VII’s reign was characterized by thrift, prudence, and cool-headed political strategies. The author, James Gairdner (22 March 1828 – 4 November 1912), was a British historian. He specialized in 15th-century and early Tudor history.

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    5 時間 31 分
  • Second Part of King Henry IV (version 2)-William Shakespeare

    Second Part of King Henry IV (version 2)-William Shakespeare
    2026/11/11
    Second Part of King Henry IV (version 2) by William Shakespeare.

    This sequel and third entry of the Henriad immediately follows the events of Henry IV, Part 1 and the aftermath of the Battle of Shrewsbury, which saw the Percys’ rebellion against the King quashed and its leader, Hotspur, killed in combat with the Prince of Wales. Upon hearing of Hotspur’s death, his father, the Earl of Northumberland, vows to avenge him, and unites with the Archbishop of York and other discontented nobles to continue the civil unrest. Meanwhile, the boastful knight Falstaff—having emerged from Shrewsbury with greater wealth and repute—resumes his drunken misadventures in Eastcheap with a new page and swaggering ensign in tow, attracting the attentions of the coarse Doll Tearsheet and the ire of the impatient Mistress Quickly.

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    3 時間 18 分
  • Life of King Henry V (version 2)-William Shakespeare

    Life of King Henry V (version 2)-William Shakespeare
    2026/11/10
    Life of King Henry V (version 2) by William Shakespeare.

    Shakespeare’s famous second Henriad reaches its thrilling conclusion in this chronicle of King Henry V’s spirited leadership over his country—a Henry who is a far cry from the prodigal prince who we saw in Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 . Now grown up and more mature than he was in his youth, Henry V is persuaded by the English clergy that he has an ancestral claim to the French throne, and when France’s haughty Dauphin facetiously rebuffs him with a gift of tennis balls, Henry orders his troops to invade French lands and begin another violent and costly war. Thus ensues one of Shakespeare’s most manifestly patriotic works, giving us in Henry a model of national zeal, courageousness, inspiration and determination, with speeches and scenes of such grand poetic intensity that they have cemented Henry V’s legendary status even to this day.

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    3 時間 11 分
  • Service-Henry David Thoreau

    Service-Henry David Thoreau
    2026/11/09
    Service by Henry David Thoreau.

    An essay in three parts written in July 1840. "Human life is his topic, and he views it with an Oriental scope of thought, in which distinctions of Time and Space are lost in the wide prospect of Eternity and Immortality."

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    37 分
  • Canoeing in the Wilderness-Henry David Thoreau

    Canoeing in the Wilderness-Henry David Thoreau
    2026/11/08
    Canoeing in the Wilderness by Henry David Thoreau.

    Be transported to the deep woods of Maine and share in both Thoreau's delight in nature and also his admiration of those others who have a deeper connection with the natural world around them.

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    2 時間 42 分
  • Maine Woods-Henry David Thoreau

    Maine Woods-Henry David Thoreau
    2026/11/07
    Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau.

    On August 31, 1846, twenty-nine-year-old Henry David Thoreau left his cabin on Walden Pond to undertake a railroad and steamboat journey to Bangor, Maine, from where he would venture with his Penobscot guide Joe Polis deep into the backwoods of Maine. This account of his expedition, some think, is a profounder exploration of the philosophical themes of the more famous "Walden" than is the latter book, at least revealing his fundamental perspectives in embryonic form. Of particular interest is his sympathetic and penetrating observation of the Indian nations of Maine, especially the Penobscot and Passamaquoddy.

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    9 時間 26 分