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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we're reading a poem by William Wordsworth, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of his birth. Many people are familiar with Wordsworth's famous poems,…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Many will be familiar with Alfred Tennyson, from whom today's poem comes. A widely beloved poet, Tennyson is one of the many literary figures…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! We're ending the second week with Edith Nesbit, the beloved children's author best known for writing "The Railway Children" and "Five Children and It."…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we'll be looking another poem that might be familiar to a lot of our readers: "The Tyger", by William Blake. This perennial favourite…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we'll be reading a short story by Philip K Dick. A prolific writer of science fiction, many of his books and stories have…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's read may be familiar to you - we're looking at "Jabberwocky," by Lewis Carroll. Appearing in "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found…