From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy.
]]>From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy.
]]>In the original (not a modern translation), with extensive footnotes.
]]>From the eight century Pangur Bán to Samuel Johnson's Hodge, 'a very fine cat indeed', this is a tale of cats told by some of the greatest writers. We've added several varieties of feline music, too, by Chopin, Fauré, Confrey, Rossini, Scarlatti, Copland, Anderson and Tchaikovsky.
1 Hodge - Samuel Johnson
2 'Cat' Waltz (Grande Valse Brillante) Op34/3 - Frédéric Chopin
3 Familiarity dangerous - William Cowper
4 Pangur Bán Anon (eight century)
5 Mi-a-ou - Gabriel Fauré
6 Lat take a cat from The Manciple's Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer
7 To my cat - Rosamund Marriot Watson
8 The Cat and the moon - William Butler Yeats
9 Kitten on the keys - Zed Confrey
10 The kitten and falling leaves - William Wordsworth
11 To a cat - John Keats
12 Cat duet - Gioacchino Rossini
13 On a cat aging - Alexander Gray
14 To a Cat - Ibn Alalaf Alnaharwany (AD 829)
15 Kitty Waltz - Gabriel Fauré
16 On the death of a favourite cat - Thomas Gray
17 Last words to a dumb friend - Thomas Hardy
18 'Cat' - Fugue Domenico Scarlatti
19 Lisy's parting with her cat - James Thomson
20 My Cat Geoffrey - Christopher Smart
21 The Cat and the mouse - Aaron Copland
22 A Cat - Edward Thomas
23 War cat - Dorothy L Sayers
24 Waltzing cat - Leroy Anderson
25 Five Eyes - Walter de la Mare
26 Cat's meat - Harold Munro
27 Puss in Boots from Sleeping Beauty - Piotr Illich Tchaikovsky
28 The matron's cat song - Ruth Pitter
Poetry read by
Margaret Howard (3, 7, 16, 23, 26, 28)
John Touhey (1, 6, 8, 11, 14, 19, 23, 25, 28)
Bernard Palmer (1, 4, 10, 13, 17, 20, 22, 28)
Music performed by
Martin Souter, piano (2, 5, 9, 15, 18, 21)
Sara Stowe, Penelope Martin Smith and Matthew Spring (12)
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (27)
Leroy Anderson and His Pops Concert Orchestra (24)
From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy.
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