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Chapter 6

Stress Maxima in Weak Positions


This page contains the sound files of the readings discussed in Chapter 6, and the respective texts.



(2) Buffet and scoffe, scorge, and crucifie mee!
                          Donne, Holy Sonnet XI: 1-2

Listen to TB's reading of Quote 2


Listen to JH's First reading of Quote 2


Listen to JH's second reading of Quote 2


(3) Only the importune Tempter still remained,
   And with these words his temptation pursued
        Milton: Paradise Regained, II: 404-405

Listen to JH's reading of Quote 3


Listen to JH's second reading of the second line of Quote 3
(The beginning of this recording is damaged)



(4) Enduring thus, the retributive hour . . .
        Shelley: Prometheus Unbound, Act I: 406

Listen to JH's reading of Quote 4



(1)  Burnt after them to the bottomless pit
        Milton: Paradise Lost, VI: 865-866

Listen to JH's reading of Quote 1


(5). To bottomless perdition, there to dwell (P.L. I. 47).
Listen to JH's reading of Quote 5


(8) Wasting of old Time, with a billowy main
        Keats: "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles"

Listen to Douglas Hodge's reading of Quote 8



(9) Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep
        Keats: "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles"

Listen to Douglas Hodge's reading of Quote 9



10.  For where is she so fair whose uneared womb



Listen to Gielgud's reading of Quote 10.





Listen to Marlow Society's reading of Quote 10.





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