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English Renaissance Verse

John Richetti reading English Renaissance verse, Wexler Studio, Kelly Writers House, April 10, 2019

Edmund Spenser

The Faerie Queene, Canto I (26:59): MP3
The Faerie Queene, Canto II (21:36): MP3
Epithalmion (21:30): MP3
Prothalamion (08:47): MP3

Sir Philip Sidney

Leave Me, O Love (00:55): MP3
With How Sad Steps (00:58): MP3
Having This Day, My Horse (00:56): MP3
What Tongue Can Her Perfections Tell? (06:58): MP3
Thou Blind Man's Mark (00:56): MP3
Loving in Truth (01:09): MP3
Come Sleepe, O Sleepe (00:55): MP3
The Bargain (00:52): MP3

Sir Walter Raleigh

The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage (02:47): MP3
What Is Our Life (00:36): MP3
The Lie (02:48): MP3
Of Spenser's Faery Queen (00:48): MP3

Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh

The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd (02:30): MP3

Sir Thomas Wyatt

They Flee From Me (01:18): MP3
My Lute Awake (01:57): MP3
And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus? (00:49): MP3
Whoso List To Hunt (00:52): MP3
Forget Not Yet (00:55): MP3

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

When Youth Had Led (01:46): MP3
Alas, So All Things Now (00:59): MP3
When Raging Love (01:32): MP3
Give Place, Ye Lovers (01:26): MP3
From Poems of Love and Chivalry: IX. Brittle Beauty (01:02): MP3
From Poems of Love and Chivalry: X. Alas, So All Things Now (00:56): MP3
From Poems of Love and Chivalry: XIII. I Never Saw You, Madam (00:56): MP3
From Poems of Love and Chivalry: XVI. When Raging Love with Extreme Pain (01:30): MP3

Robert Southwell

The Burning Babe (01:30): MP3

Fulke Greville

Chorus of Priests (01:34): MP3
Away with These Self-Loving Lads (01:31): MP3
All My Senses, Like Beacon's Flame (02:23): MP3

John Skelton

My Darling Dear, My Daisy Flower (01:57): MP3

Michael Drayton

Since There's No Help (00:57): MP3
Three Sorts of Serpents Do Resemble Thee (1:03): MP3
The Ballad of Agincourt (04:10): MP3
So Well I Love Thee (01:27): MP3

Sir Edward Dyer

My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is (02:34): MP3

George Gascoigne

The Passion of a Lover (03:40): MP3
A Strange Passion of a Lover (01:45): MP3
The Lullaby of a Lover (02:15): MP3
At Beauty's Bar As I Did Stand (02:41): MP3

Thomas Campion

My Sweetest Lesbia (01:11): MP3
Though You Are Young (00:42): MP3
When to Her Lute (00:40): MP3
What Then Is Love but Mourning (00:50): MP3
There Is a Garden in Her Face (00:59): MP3

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