Richmond Read-along 25
Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's reading comes from Horace Walpole's "Hieroglyphic Tales." Walpole - a past resident of the Borough - is best known for building his beloved…
Richmond Read-along 24
Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we're reading Matsuo Basho. Matsuo Basho is the most famous Japanese poet of the Edo period, born in 1644 near Kyoto. After studying…
Richmond Read-along 23
Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we're looking to the much-beloved "The Wind in the Willows" stories. Scottish author Kenneth Grahame told his young son bedtime stories featuring the…
Richmond Read-along 22
Welcome to the fourth week of the Richmond Read-along! We're starting this week with Charles Baudelaire. As well as a poet, he was a noted art critic and translated much…
Richmond Read-along 21
Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we're looking at Virginia Woolf. Woolf may be famously remembered as part of the Bloomsbury Group of writers and artists, but between 1914…
Richmond Read-along 20
Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's poem is from John Keats, one of the many poems he produced despite dying just after his 25th birthday. Keats originally trained as…
Richmond Read-along 19
Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's reading is an extract from the Orkneyinga Saga, the history of the Earls of Orkney. The medieval Viking sagas give a glimpse of…
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) – [Local History Notes: 16]
Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the English Poets records a statement, attributed to Lady Bolingbroke, to the effect that Pope could 'hardly drink tea without a stratagem'. Pope’s career was, indeed,…
Richmond Read-along 18
Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we're reading a nonsense poem by Laura E Richards. Richards was an American author who wrote numerous biographies and children's novels, as well…
Richmond Read-along 17
Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we're reading a tale from The Thousand and One Nights, also popularly referred to as the Arabian Nights. The story goes that there…