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Poets and Poetry
To Autumn
Poet John Keats speaks of the beauties of Autumn, her colours, her sounds and her rich harvest.
by John Keats 1795-1821
The Empire Within
Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley says that the pinnacle of political achievement is the government not of others, but of ourselves.
by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822
Autumn: A Dirge
Poet Percy Shelley calls on November’s sister months to watch by the graveside of the dead Year.
Character and Conduct
‘Thy Necessity is Yet Greater than Mine’
Elizabethan courtier and soldier Sir Philip Sidney shows that a nobleman can also be a gentleman.
by Fulke Greville, Baron Brooke 1554-1628
Music and Musicians
The Free-Wheeler
Composer Ethel Smyth buys a new-fangled ladies’ bicycle, and scandalises the neighbours.
by Ethel Smyth 1858-1944
Extracts from Literature
Alice gets an English Lesson
Alice meets Humpty Dumpty, and it turns out that she has been using words wrong all her life.
by Lewis Carroll 1832-1898
