England and Yesterday by Louise Imogen Guiney ~ Full Audiobook [poetry]

England and Yesterday by Louise Imogen Guiney audiobook.

Genre: poetry

England and Yesterday is a compact, finely wrought poetry collection by American poet Louise Imogen Guiney, shaped by her deep love of English place, history, and literary tradition. The book opens with a London sequence of sonnets (written in 1889) that moves through iconic spaces and moods: Westminster Abbey and the Tower, city fog and river stairs, museum reading rooms and dockside labor, where splendor and hardship stand side by side. A second sonnet sequence turns to Oxford (written between 1890 and 1895), tracing tow-paths, college gardens, old dials, and church stones, as the speaker listens for the undertones of faith, scholarship, and time itself. Beyond these travel-grounded poems, Guiney broadens into lyrics and brief occasional pieces that invoke ballad and song, meditate on saints and poets, and linger over ruins, landscapes, and memorials. Throughout, the central tension is between the living present and the weight of what came before: how a city or a countryside can feel crowded with centuries, and how a modern observer can love a place without ignoring its sorrows. The result is a luminous portrait of England seen through memory, conscience, and music.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:01:07) Chapter 02

(00:02:16) Chapter 03

(00:03:32) Chapter 04

(00:04:52) Chapter 05

(00:06:03) Chapter 06

(00:07:14) Chapter 07

(00:08:24) Chapter 08

(00:09:34) Chapter 09

(00:10:45) Chapter 10

(00:12:07) Chapter 11

(00:13:19) Chapter 12

(00:14:25) Chapter 13

(00:15:38) Chapter 14

(00:16:52) Chapter 15

(00:18:11) Chapter 16

(00:19:29) Chapter 17

(00:20:46) Chapter 18

(00:22:05) Chapter 19

(00:23:36) Chapter 20

(00:24:46) Chapter 21

(00:25:54) Chapter 22

(00:27:19) Chapter 23

(00:28:27) Chapter 24

(00:29:52) Chapter 25

(00:32:28) Chapter 26

(00:36:18) Chapter 27

(00:37:28) Chapter 28

(00:38:41) Chapter 29

(00:39:45) Chapter 30

(00:41:01) Chapter 31

(00:42:33) Chapter 32

(00:43:54) Chapter 33

(00:45:16) Chapter 34

(00:47:13) Chapter 35

(00:48:43) Chapter 36

(00:49:38) Chapter 37

(00:50:32) Chapter 38

(00:51:41) Chapter 39

(00:52:53) Chapter 40

(00:53:43) Chapter 41

(00:55:24) Chapter 42

(00:57:07) Chapter 43

(00:59:20) Chapter 44

(01:00:35) Chapter 45

(01:02:21) Chapter 46

(01:04:09) Chapter 47

(01:06:23) Chapter 48

(01:07:18) Chapter 49

(01:08:04) Chapter 50

(01:09:19) Chapter 51

(01:10:07) Chapter 52

(01:11:07) Chapter 53

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