Titles and authors are listed on cassette container. Read by Alexander Scourby, Bramwell Fletcher, Nancy Wickwire.
Contents:
Argument of his book -- Delight in disorder -- To the virgins, to make much of time -- Upon Julia's clothes / Robert Herrick -- Collar -- Pulley -- Love (III) / George Herbert -- When I consider how my light is spent / John Milton -- Song "Why so pale and wan, fond lover? " -- Out upon it / John Suckling -- To Althea, from prison / Richard Lovelace -- To his coy mistress -- Definition of love / Andrew Marvell -- Retreat / Henry Vaughan -- Song for St. Cecillia's Day / John Dryden -- Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray -- From "Poetical sketches song" -- From "Songs of innocence introduction the Lamb" -- From "Songs of experience" -- Tyger / William Blake -- To a mouse -- Red, red rose / Robert Burns. Cuckoo song / anon. -- Whoso list to hunt / Thomas Wyatt -- Nymph's reply to the shepherd -- Passionate man's pilgrimage / Walter Ralegh -- Sonnet 1 from "Astrophel and Stella" / Philip Sidney -- Passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe -- Sonnet 18 "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" -- Sonnet 29 "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes" -- Sonnet 116 "Let me not to the marriage of true minds -- Sonnet 129 "Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame" / William Shakespeare -- When to her lute Corinna sings -- Rose=cheeked Laura --There is a garden in her face / Thomas Campion -- Song "go and catch a falling star" -- Sun rising -- Sonnet 10 from Holy Sonnets "Death, be not proud" / John Donne -- Song: to Celia / Ben Jonson. Whe dwelt among the untrodden ways -- Composed upon Westminster Bridge September 3, 1802 -- My hearts leaps up -- World is too much with us / William Wordsworth -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- She walks in beauty / George Gordon -- When we two parted / Lord Byron -- Ozymandias -- Ode to the west wind -- To a skylark -- Adonais (stanzas 1,39,54,55) / Percy Shelley -- On first looking into Chapman's Homer -- Ode on a Grecian urn -- Bright star / John Keats -- Concord hymn -- The Rhodora / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Sonnets from "The Portuguese; 1,43" -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- To Helen -- City in the Sea -- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- Break, break, break -- Songs from "The Princess ; Splendor falls ; Tears, idle tears; Now sleeps the crimson petal" -- Eagle -- Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson . My last Duchess -- Home-thoughts, from abroad / Robert Browning -- Song of myself (parts 1,6,21,31) -- O Captain! My Captain! / Walt Whitman -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- 303 "The soul selects her own society" -- 986 "A narrow fellow in the grass" / Emily Dickinson -- Up-hill / Christina Rossetti -- Garden of Proserpine / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Darkling thrush / Thomas Hardy -- Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Loveliest of trees, the cherry now -- With Rue my heart is laden / Alfred E. Housman -- Lake Isle of Innisfree -- Wild Swans of Coole / William Butler Yeats.
Summary:
A collection of 81 of the world's best loved and known poems. The readings are presented in the order they appear in "The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Third Edition". Thirty-nine major poets are included from Shakespeare, Blake, and Wordsworth to Keats, the Brownings, Whitman, Dickinson and Yeats.
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