The Gift Of Poetry
- Label: Alto
- Release: 01/06/2018
- Genre: Spoken
- Media Format: CD
- UPC: 5055354419683
Product Notes
Over 78 mins of sustained quality favorites, well-remastered vintage classic tracks chosen by experts, legendary voices.
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1 W. H. Auden: The Night Mail (John Laurie)
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2 Laurie Lee: April (Laurie Lee)
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3 Oscar Wilde: Ballad of Reading Gaol (Frank Duncan)
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4 Robert Burns: Red, Red Rose (John Neville)
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5 Alec Guinness Reading: (*With Osian Ellis, Harp) E. E. Cummings: Sweet Spring
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6 E. E. Cummings: When Faces Called Flowers
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7 E. E. Cummings: The Moon Looked Into My Window
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8 Thomas H. Bayly: Ask Me Not for Sportive Lays*
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9 Cornelius Whur: The Female Friend*
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10 Thomas H. Bayly: Toujours Le Meme*
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11 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Exelsior*
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12 Richard Burton Reading: Thomas Hardy: Wessex Heights
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13 Thomas Hardy: The Voice
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14 John Clare: Autumn
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15 Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd
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16 Walter Raleigh: Nymph's Reply
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17 Bishop Henry King: From Exequy on His Wife
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18 William Dunbar: From Lament of the Makers
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19 Robert Graves: Welsh Incident
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20 John Betjeman Reading Betjeman: The Church's Restoration
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21 Olympic Girl
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22 Seaside Golf
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23 Business Women
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24 Indoor Games Near Newbury
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25 How to Get on in Society
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26 Licorice Fields at Pontefract
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27 Robert Donat Reading: A. E. Housman: From Far from Eve and Morning
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28 John Betjeman: Death at Leamington
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29 Coventry Patmore: The Toys
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30 T. S. Eliot: Gus, the Theatre Cat
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31 Yuan Jie: Drunk Song on Stone Fish Lake
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32 Robert Browning: Ring and the Book (Extract)
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33 WM Shakespeare: On Her Reign (From Henry VIII)
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34 Shakespeare: 'Dirge for Fidele' from Cymbeline (Fear No More the Heat of the Sun...)
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35 William Wordsworth: Intimations of Immortality
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36 John Donne: A Devotion (No Man Is An Island) (Orson Welles)
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37 Langston Hughes: Freedom Train (Paul Robeson)
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38 Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address (Orson Welles)
Over 78 mins of sustained quality favorites, well-remastered vintage classic tracks chosen by experts, legendary voices.
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