Brush up your Shakespeare, Donne, Shelley, and other master poets with Richard Burton, John Gielgud, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, and other luminaries of the 20th century stage.
Poetry Classics
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Giants of the stage and screen read classic poems from Shakespeare to Dylan Thomas – at an unprecedented price.
Poetry Classics
Alto Take 2 ALN-1918
Number of Units: 1
EAN: 5055354419188
| CD 1 | |||
| 1 | On Westminster Bridge (Wordsworth) — Robert Donat | 01:07 | |
| 2 | Ode To A Nightingale (Keats) — Robert Donat | 05:15 | |
| 3 | On Wenlock Edge (A.E. Housman) — Robert Donat | 00:58 | |
| 4 | Youth and Age on Beaulieu River (Betjeman) — John Betjeman | 03:24 | |
| 5 | A Subaltern’s Love Song (Betjeman) — John Betjeman | 04:03 | |
| 6 | Hunter Trials (Betjeman) — John Betjeman | 02:12 | |
| 7 | Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal (Tennyson) — Dame Peggy Ashcroft | 01:05 | |
| 8 | Daffodils (Wordsworth) — Christopher Hassall | 01:14 | |
| 9 | Sonnet No.2: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow (Shakespeare) — Anthony Quayle | 00:49 | |
| 10 | Sonnet No.18: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day? (Shakespeare) — Anthony Quayle | 00:48 | |
| 11 | Ode: Intimations of Immortality (‘Recollections of Early Childhood’) (Wordsworth) — Christopher Hassall | 11:05 | |
| 12 | Sonnet No.33: Full Many A Glorious Morning Have I Seen (Shakespeare) — John Gielgud | 00:56 | |
| 13 | The Sunne Rising (Donne) — Anthony Quayle | 01:47 | |
| 14 | Hymne To God: My God In My Sicknesse (Donne) — Anthony Quayle | 02:18 | |
| 15 | To Jane: The Invitation (Shelley) — Dame Peggy Ashcroft | 03:20 | |
| 16 | My True-Love Hath My Heart (Sidney) — Anthony Quayle | 00:51 | |
| 17 | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Taylor Coleridge) — Richard Burton / John Neville / Robert Hardy | 28:15 | |
| 18 | Death Be Not Proud (Donne) — Christopher Hassall | 01:08 | |
| 19 | Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (Dylan Thomas) — Richard Burton | 01:16 | |
| 20 | And Death Shall Have No Dominion (Dylan Thomas) — Richard Burton | 01:35 | |
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Alto Take 2 - Spoken Word