Sophie Gee
speaker
11,180 appearances
40 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 2d ago
Sophie Gee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Transparent forms, too fine for mortal sight, their fluid bodies half dissolved in light.
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Loose to the wind their airy garments flew, Thin glittering textures of the filmy dew, Dipped in the richest tincture of the skies, Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes, Where every beam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings.
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Amid the circle, on the gilded mast,
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Superior by the head was Ariel, who's the head nymph, head sylph, placed.
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His purple pinions opening to the sun, he raised his azure wand and thus begun.
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So this moment that we're seeing is the hinge that is going to get us from John Milton and the angels and the devils of Paradise Lost, who are this invisible squadron, these invisible war bands who people Paradise Lost.
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It's kind of getting us from there to Harry Potter.
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The whole of the literature is concentrated in that image of the Silves and the Ninks animating the sales as Belinda goes down the Thames.
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semi-solid by this point
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writer at
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complete libelous character assassination and creative assassination of every single well-known writer in the country.
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The hubris of it, the daring of it is simply extraordinary.
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He was.
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And it sort of spawned this whole kind of sub-industry.
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Pope was nothing if not unbelievably canny as a figure in commercial publishing.
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He realised that by doing something so provocative, he was actually going to bring about this wave of spin-off merchandise around his poems.
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So there were endless keys to the lot published, sub-poems and trademarks.
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prose treatises exposing the truth about this poem, who all the characters were.
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And the incredible thing about The Rape of the Lock is that he successfully annihilated all of his literary competitors.
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all of those names, Sibber and Smedley and Richard Bentley and Lewis Theobald, all these figures who were really very well regarded and often...
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