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Penguin English Verse: Volume 4

Penguin English Verse is an original collection of six volumes which contain the essence of English poetry from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. Each volume incorporates the most representative and popular verse of its period and is accompanied by a special booklet containing the entire text. All the recordings are newly produced and employ the voices of a distinguished cast of readers.

This audiobook concentrates on the English Romantic poetry which folurished in the years between 1780 and 1830, as political and cultural revolutions were taking hold throughout Europe. The Romantic sensibility expressed in poetry from Blake to Byron continues to have contemporary relevance, particularly in the value these poets give to the unconscious and irrational and in their feeling for nature under threat from mass industrial society.

The Romantics contains work by less familiar poets together with readings from the work of Blake, Burns, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelly, Keats and Clare.

Read by Jill Balcon, Sean Barrett, Elizabeth Bell, Alan Cumming, Judi Dench, Crawford Logan, John Moffatt, Michael Pennington and Andrew Sachs.

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Side One: * William Blake  "The Tyger" "The Smile" "Nurse's Song" "The Everlasting Gospel" "The School Boy" "The Fly" "Jerusalem" "John Barleycorn: A Ballad" "Auguries of Innocence" "The Chimney Sweeper" "The Garden of Love" "The Clod and the Pebble" "London" "The Human Abstract" "The Lamb" "Infant Sorrow" "The Divine Image" "The Sick Rose" "To the Evening Star" "To Winter"  * Robert Burns "To a Mouse" "My Bony Mary" "A Red, Red Rose" "Ae Fond Kiss" "O Whistle, and I¡¦ll come to ye, my lad" "The Banks o'Doon" * Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Frost at Midnight" "The Knight's Tomb" "Duty Surviving Self-love" * William Wordsworth "My Heart Leaps up When I behold" "The Solitary Reaper" * Robert Southey "The Cataract of Lodore"

Side Two: * William Blake  "Ah! Sun-Flower" * Robert Burns "For a' that and a that"  * Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Dejection: An Ode" "Kubla Khan" "The Netherlands"    * William Wordsworth  "To a Butterfly" "Strange fits of Passion Have I know" "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways" "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal" "There was a Boy" "To a Skylark" * Lord Byron "She Walks in Beauty" "Stanzas for Music" "The Destruction of Sennacherib" "Remember thee! Remember Thee!" "When We Two Parted"    * Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ozymandias" "Ode to the West Wind" "Sonnet: England in 1819" "Hellas" "Lines" "To a Skylark" "Stanzas: Written in Dejection, near Naples" "from The Mask of Anarchy"    * Anonymous "An Answer to the Parson" "Great Things Are Done"

Side Three: * Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Cloud" "Song" "Song to the Men of England" "A Sonnet" * Lord Byron "The spell is broke, the charm is flown" "So we'll go no more a-roving"  * John Keats   "La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad"  "Ode to a Nightingale" "Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art" "To Autumn" "Ode on a Grecian Urn" "This living hand, now warm and capable" "After dark vapours have oppressed our plains" "To Sleep" * Walter Savage Landor "Verse" * Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Cologne"  * William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey. .  . " "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" "I wandered lonely as a cloud" * James Leigh Hunt "Rondeau" * John Clare "Hesperus" "I am" "The Ywllowhammer" "Winter Evening" "First Sight of Spring" "Snow Storm" "Night Wind" "Evening Schoolboys"

Side Four: * John Clare  "The Badger" "Autumn" "Haymaking" "Autumn Morning" "Evening" * John Keats "On the Grasshopper and Cricket" "Over the hill and over the dale" "Old Meg she was a gipsy" * William Wordsworth "Nutting" "Old Man Travelling" "London, 1812" "The Small Celandine" "Surprised by joy" * George Darley "The Mermaidens' Vesper-hymn"    * William Blake "Eternity"    * Samuel Taylor Coleridge "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

 
 

 

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