About this book
The sestina has enjoyed intermittent popularity in English writing and translation since the sixteenth century, and this selection highlights some of the varied ways the form has been used and adapted. - Summary by Newgatenovelist
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- 1Sestina of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni by Dante Alighieri2:46 · read by Peter Tucker
- 2Sestina I – Similitudes of Love by Dante Alighieri2:21 · read by Peter Tucker
- 3Sestina II – Similitudes of Love by Dante Alighieri2:31 · read by Peter Tucker
- 4Sestina III – Similitudes of Love by Dante Alighieri2:27 · read by Peter Tucker
- 5Ode II by Francesco Petrarch2:21 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 6Ode VIII by Francesco Petrarch2:23 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 7Sestina by Francesco Petrarch2:46 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 8Sestina by Francesco Petrarch6:20 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 9Sestina I by Francesco Petrarch2:31 · read by Peter Tucker
- 10Sestina II by Francesco Petrarch2:36 · read by Peter Tucker
- 11Sestina III by Francesco Petrarch2:30 · read by Peter Tucker
- 12Sestina IV by Francesco Petrarch2:20 · read by Peter Tucker
- 13Sestina V by Francesco Petrarch2:29 · read by Peter Tucker
- 14Sestina VI by Francesco Petrarch2:28 · read by Peter Tucker
- 15Sestina VII by Francesco Petrarch2:30 · read by Peter Tucker
- 16Sestina VIII by Francesco Petrarch2:32 · read by Peter Tucker
- 17Sestina by Francesco Petrarch4:28 · read by Peter Tucker
- 18Petrarch's First Sestina by Francesco Petrarch2:35 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 19Sestina from Petrarch by Francesco Petrarch2:44 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 20Sestina VIII by Francesco Petrarch3:36 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 21Double Sestina by Francesco Petrarch5:02 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 22A Sestina on a Lover’s Hours by Francesco Petrarch2:57 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 23Cuddie’s Sestina by Edmund Spenser2:37 · read by Peter Tucker
- 24Strephon and Klaius by Philip Sidney4:42 · read by Peter Tucker, Newgatenovelist
- 25Adgelastus’ Sestine by Philip Sidney2:27 · read by Peter Tucker
- 26Farewell by Philip Sidney2:17 · read by Peter Tucker
- 27Sestin I by William Alexander2:44 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 28Sestin II by William Alexander2:36 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 29Sestine 1 by Barnabe Barnes1:49 · read by Peter Tucker
- 30Sestine 2 by Barnabe Barnes2:02 · read by Peter Tucker
- 31Sestine 3 by Barnabe Barnes1:52 · read by Peter Tucker
- 32Sestine 4 by Barnabe Barnes4:13 · read by Peter Tucker
- 33Sestine 5 by Barnabe Barnes6:28 · read by Peter Tucker
- 34A Complaint by Francis Davison4:30 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 35Sextain – The Heaven Doth Not Contain So Many Stars by William Drummond2:21 · read by Peter Tucker
- 36Sextain – Sith Gone is My Delight and Only Pleasure by William Drummond2:26 · read by Peter Tucker
- 37Sestine by Friedrich Rückert2:32 · read by Peter Tucker
- 38A Sestina by James Mew3:03 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 39Sestina by Edmund Gosse2:24 · read by Peter Tucker
- 40Rizzio’s Sestina by Algernon Charles Swinburne2:24 · read by Peter Tucker
- 41Sestina by Algernon Charles Swinburne2:19 · read by Peter Tucker
- 42The Complaint of Lisa by Algernon Charles Swinburne11:27 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 43Beside the Sea by R. K. Munkittrick2:20 · read by Peter Tucker
- 44A Sestina by H. C. Faulkner3:21 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 45Cupid and the Shepherd by Clinton Scollard2:14 · read by Peter Tucker
- 46The Voices of Spring by Elizabeth Akers3:09 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 47Sestina by Florence Byrne2:54 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 48An Island Pine by Elisabeth Cavazza3:01 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 49Love’s Going by Charles W. Coleman, Junior2:23 · read by Peter Tucker
- 50An Explanatory Sestina by Henry Nesgarde Johnson2:09 · read by Peter Tucker
- 51The Stars by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson2:59 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 52Pulvis et Umbra by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson3:09 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 53Personality by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson3:11 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 54Dorothy by Annie Eliza Johnson3:12 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 55Thelga and Ethred by Harrison Robertson3:07 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 56The Birthday by Richard Garnett3:01 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 57Fra Filippo Lippi and the Nun by Mary Anna Buck Evans2:46 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 58An Incident in the Crusades by Mary Anna Buck Evans2:53 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 59Drake, and the Ransom of San Domingo - 1585 by Mary Anna Buck Evans2:38 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 60The Things I Love by John Lawrence Smith2:53 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 61Sestina by Timothy Barrett2:59 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 62Sestina of the Tramp-Royal by Rudyard Kipling2:09 · read by Peter Tucker
- 63Sestina of the Red Heart and White World by John William Lloyd2:45 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 64Sestina by Charles Camp Tarelli2:17 · read by Peter Tucker
- 65Sestina – The Higher Scepticism by Charles Camp Tarelli2:13 · read by Peter Tucker
- 66Sestina – The Adventurers by Charles Camp Tarelli2:14 · read by Peter Tucker
- 67To the Forest by Eugene Lee-Hamilton3:15 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 68Homes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman2:32 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 69The Bawling World by Charlotte Perkins Gilman2:43 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 70A Dream of Gold by Charlotte Perkins Gilman2:43 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 71Sestina by Annie Lake Townsend2:49 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 72In the Autumn Woods by Charles Edward Russell3:06 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 73Sestina by Post Wheeler1:30 · read by Peter Tucker
- 74Sestina of Youth and Age by Gelett Burgess2:19 · read by Peter Tucker
- 75New Hope by Charles F. Johnson2:19 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 76Sestina by Ella Wheeler Wilcox2:44 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 77Rebel-Chimes by Ardeen Foster2:21 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 78Sestina by Victor Reese2:39 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 79Sestina - A Song in Winter by W. M. James3:00 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 80Mid-Summer’s Eve by Stanley Matthews Cleveland3:13 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 81Sestina by Margaret Thomas1:50 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 82Sestina of the Yellow Rose by H. E. D.2:58 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 83Sestina: Altaforte by Ezra Pound3:10 · read by Peter Tucker
- 84Sestina for Ysolt by Ezra Pound2:20 · read by Peter Tucker
- 85The Immortal World by Nina Salaman3:01 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 86Sestina of the Ardent Club Woman by Mary Eleanor Roberts2:08 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 87Betwixt the Night and Day by Nels Dickmann Anderson2:45 · read by Peter Tucker
- 88Love’s Serenade by Nels Dickmann Anderson2:19 · read by Peter Tucker
- 89Sestina of the Shuffling Feet by William Andrew MacKenzie2:34 · read by Peter Tucker
- 90Sestina by Leroy Titus Weeks2:26 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 91The Sestina of Thoughtful Bill by Edward Benninghaus Kenna2:10 · read by Peter Tucker
- 92A Rhymed Sestina by Dorothy Frances Gurney2:21 · read by Peter Tucker
- 93The Sestina of the New Englander by Shirley Harvey2:09 · read by Peter Tucker
- 94The Conqueror Passes by James Branch Cabell2:23 · read by Peter Tucker
- 95The House of Silence by Richard Butler Glaenzer3:05 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 96Narcissus by Thomas Grant Springer1:59 · read by Peter Tucker
- 97Sestina by Mary Cromwell Low3:02 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 98Sestina of a Scamp Royal by John Francis Glynn2:14 · read by Peter Tucker
- 99Sestina – The Reawakening of Desire by Dolf Wyllarde2:09 · read by Peter Tucker
- 100Sestina to Professor Gildersleeve on His Forthcoming Sonnets by Carol Wight2:51 · read by Newgatenovelist
- 101Sestina by Henry Dumont2:11 · read by Peter Tucker
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