Description
‘Great voices always enhance our understanding and enjoyment of classic poetry’
- Robert Donat reads his choices:
- 1. Rudyard Kipling: The Way through the Woods 1:03
- 2. Robert Bridges: Nightingales 1:16
- 3. John Keats: Bright Star 1:01
- 4. Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci 2:23
- 5. Keats: Ode to Melancholy 1:54
- 6. Keats: When I Have Fears 0:57
- 7. Percy Shelley: Adonais (in memory Keats) 3:33
- Laurie Lee & James Mason
- 8. Laurie Lee: The Abandoned Shade (author) 1:08
- 9. Laurie Lee: Day of these Days (author) 1:11
- 10. Robert Browning: The Bishop Orders his Tomb (James Mason) 10:09
- Alec Guinness’ choices
- 11. Edith Sitwell: I do Like to be Beside the Seaside (Façade) 1:13
- 12. Edith Sitwell: Polka (Façade) 1:06
- 13. Hilaire Belloc: Tarantella 1:13
- 14. Walter James Turner: Romance (‘Chimborazo Cotopaxi’) 1:12
- 15. Robert Graves: Through Nightmare 0:47
- 16. W.H. Auden: Hearing of Harvest, Rotting in the Valley 2:33
- 17. Anon: Clerk Saunders 5:56
- 18. Anon: King John and the Abbot of Canterbury 5:37
- 19. Wm.Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part 3 – Act 2, Scene 5: Soliloquy 1:59
- 20. Robert Browning: A Toccata of Galuppi’s 3:56
- 21. Ogden Nash: Serviette in a Lovely Home 2:36
- 22. Arthur Hugh Clough: Spectator Ab Extra 0:52
- 23. William Blake: Night 2:03
- 24. Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Leaden Echo & the Golden Echo 4:12
- War Poets (selection)
- 25. David Jones: In Parenthesis (excerpt) 2:26
(C. Day Lewis, Hugh Burden, John Stride, Gary Watson)
- 26. Robert Graves: The Survivor (V.C. Clinton-Baddeley) 1:20
- 27. Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting (Alec Guinness) 2:54
- 28. Wilfred Owen: Arms & the Boy (Carleton Hobbs) 0:52
- 29. Wilfred Owen: Futility (Robert Donat) 0:58
- 30. Rupert Brooke: The Hill (Robert Donat) 0:57
- 31. Siegfried Sassoon: The Death Bed (Robert Donat) 4:01
- 32. Henry Reed: Naming of Parts (author) 2:12
