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  • Edward Thomas: Poetry Recordings

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Poetry Recordings: Poets

‘Truly fine poetry must be read aloud.’

– Jorge Luis Borges, short-story writer and poet

Professional recordings of well-loved poetry to breathe life into study and fully engage students with the subtle complexities of the art form. Provided on CD, these readings can be played in class or uploaded onto a VLE.

  • Familiarise students with key aspects of poetry including metre, rhyme and rhythm
  • Beautifully read aloud by experienced West End actors!
  • Recordings include female and male readers and Scottish, English and American accents where possible.

Superior sound quality

M McPherson, English Teacher & Peer Reviewer

Excellent quality. We ordered this because we wanted to introduce high quality readings to our pupils.

C Tardios, English Teacher & Customer

Authentic voice!

P Metcalf, English Teacher & Peer Reviewer
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William Blake • Robert Browning • John Donne • Thomas Hardy • John Keats • Wilfred Owen • Christina Rossetti • Alfred Lord Tennyson • Edward Thomas • W B Yeats

William Blake

Forty-six poems (51 minutes) on one CD:

Songs of Innocence
  1. Introduction
  2. The Shepherd
  3. The Echoing Green
  4. The Lamb
  5. The Little Black Boy
  6. The Blossom
  7. The Chimney Sweeper
  8. The Little Boy Lost
  9. The Little Boy Found
  10. Laughing Song
  11. A Cradle Song
  12. The Divine Image
  13. Holy Thursday
  14. Night
  15. Spring
  16. Nurse's Song
  17. Infant Joy
  18. A Dream
  19. On Another’s Sorrow
 Songs of Experience
  1. Introduction
  2. Earth's Answer
  3. The Clod and the Pebble
  4. Holy Thursday
  5. The Little Girl Lost
  6. The Little Girl Found
  7. The Chimney Sweeper (Exp)
  8. Nurse's Song
  9. The Sick Rose
  10. The Fly
  11. The Angel
  12. The Tyger
  13. My Pretty Rose Tree
  14. Ah! Sun-flower
  15. The Lilly
  16. The Garden of Love
  17. The Little Vagabond
  18. London
  19. The Human Abstract
  20. Infant Sorrow
  21. A Poison Tree
  22. A Little Boy Lost
  23. A Little Girl Lost
  24. To Tirzah
  25. The School-Boy
  26. The Voice of the Ancient Bard
  27. A Divine Image

Robert Browning

Thirty-seven poems (151 minutes) on 3 CDs

  1. A Grammarian’s Funeral
  2. A Toccata of Galuppi’s
  3. A Woman’s Last Word
  4. Apparent Failure
  5. Confessions
  6. Cristina
  7. De Gustibus
  8. Dubiety
  9. Evelyn Hope
  10. Fra Lippo Lippi
  11. Home-Thoughts, From Abroad
  12. How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix
  13. James Lee's Wife: III - In the Doorway
  14. Johannes Agricola in Mediation
  15. Life in a Love
  16. Love Among the Ruins
  17. Love in a Life
  18. Meeting at Night
  19. My Last Duchess
  1. Never the Time and the Place
  2. Now
  3. Parting at Morning
  4. Pictor Ignotus
  5. Porphyria's Lover
  6. Prospice
  7. Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
  8. The Bishop Orders his Tomb
  9. The Laboratory
  10. The Last Ride Together
  11. The Lost Leader
  12. The Lost Mistress
  13. The Patriot
  14. The Pied Piper of Hamelin
  15. Two in the Campagna
  16. Up at a Villa–Down in the City
  17. Women and Roses
  18. You'll Love Me Yet

John Donne

Thirty-three poems (80 minutes) on 2 CDs

  1. A Hymn to God the Father
  2. A Jet Ring Sent
  3. A Nocturnal Upon St Lucy's Day
  4. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
  5. A Valediction: Of Weeping
  6. Air and Angels
  7. Elegy V: His Picture
  8. Elegy XVII: Elegy On His Mistress
  9. Elegy XX: To His Mistress Going to Bed
  10. Holy Sonnets: Sonnet IV
  11. Holy Sonnets: Sonnet VII
  12. Holy Sonnets: Sonnet X
  13. Holy Sonnets: Sonnet XIV
  14. Holy Sonnets: Sonnet XIX
  15. Holy Sonnets: Sonnet XVIII
  16. Love's Alchemy
  17. Love's Growth
  1. Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star
  2. Song: Sweetest Love I Do Not Go
  3. The Anniversary
  4. The Apparition
  5. The Canonization
  6. The Ecstacy
  7. The Flea
  8. The Funeral
  9. The Good Morrow
  10. The Indifferent
  11. The Legacy
  12. The Relic
  13. The Sun Rising
  14. The Triple Fool
  15. Twickenham Garden
  16. Woman's Constancy

Thomas Hardy

Thirty-six poems (71 minutes) on 2 CDs:

  1. A Broken Appointment
  2. A Sunday Morning Tragedy
  3. A Trampwoman's Tragedy
  4. After a Journey
  5. Afterwards
  6. An August Midnight
  7. At an Inn
  8. At Castle Boterel
  9. Beeny Cliff
  10. Beyond the Last Lamp
  11. Drummer Hodge
  12. During Wind and Rain
  13. From Men Who March Away (Song of the Soldiers)
  14. I Found Her Out There
  15. In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’
  16. Lament
  17. Neutral Tones
  18. Rain on a Grave
  19. Tess's Lament
  1. The Convergence of the Twain
  2. The Darkling Thrush
  3. The Flower's Tragedy
  4. The Forbidden Banns
  5. The Frozen Greenhouse
  6. The Going
  7. The Haunter
  8. The Man He Killed
  9. The Mock Wife
  10. The Newcomer's Wife
  11. The Oxen
  12. The Ruined Maid
  13. The Self-Unseeing
  14. The Voice
  15. Transformations
  16. Under the Waterfall
  17. Your Last Drive

John Keats

5 poems (102 minutes) on 2 CDs

  1. Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil
  2. La Belle Dame sans Merci
  3. Lamia
  4. The Eve of St Agnes
  5. To Autumn

Wilfred Owen

Twenty-two poems (47 minutes) on 1 CD
  1. A Terre
  2. Anthem for Doomed Youth
  3. Apologia Pro Poemate Meo
  4. Arms and the Boy
  5. Conscious
  6. Disabled
  7. Dulce et Decorum est
  8. Exposure
  9. Futility
  10. Insensibility
  11. Inspection
  1. Mental Cases
  2. Miners
  3. Spring Offensive
  4. Strange Meeting
  5. The Chances
  6. The Dead-Beat
  7. The Last Laugh
  8. The Letter
  9. The Send-Off
  10. The Sentry
  11. The Show

Christina Rossetti

Thirty-nine poems (102 minutes) on 2 CDs
  1. A Better Resurrection
  2. A Birthday
  3. A Dumb Friend
  4. A Royal Princess
  5. After Death
  6. An Apple-Gathering
  7. Another Spring
  8. Cousin Kate
  9. Despised and Rejected
  10. Echo
  11. From the Antique (It’s a weary life, it is, she said)
  12. Goblin Market
  13. Good Friday
  14. In An Artist's Studio
  15. In the Round Tower at Jhansi
  16. In The Willow Shade
  17. Jessie Cameron
  18. Maude Clare
  19. My Dream
  20. No, Thank You, John
  1. On the Wing
  2. Promises like Piecrust
  3. Remember
  4. Shut Out
  5. Sister Maude
  6. 'Song' (Oh roses for the flush of youth)
  7. 'Song' (When I am dead, my dearest)
  8. Soeur Louise de la Misericorde
  9. Spring Quiet
  10. Summer is Ended
  11. Symbols
  12. The Convent Threshold
  13. The Key-Note
  14. The Lowest Place
  15. The World
  16. To Lalla, reading my verses topsy-turvy
  17. Twice
  18. Uphill
  19. Winter: My Secret

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Eight poems (42 minutes) on 1 CD

  1. Break, Break, Break
  2. Godiva
  3. Mariana
  4. The Eagle
  5. The Lady of Shallott
  6. The Lotos-Eaters and Choric Song
  7. Tithonus
  8. Ulysses

Edward Thomas

Eighteen poems (28 minutes) on 1 CD
  1. As the Team's Head Brass
  2. Aspens
  3. But These Things Also
  4. Gone, Gone Again (otherwise titled 'Blenheim Oranges')
  5. In Memoriam (August 1915)
  6. Lights Out
  7. March
  8. Melancholy
  9. No One Cares Less Than I
  1. No One So Much As You
  2. Old Man
  3. Rain
  4. Tears
  5. The Cherry Trees
  6. The Glory
  7. The Sun Used to Shine
  8. This is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong
  9. Words

W B Yeats

Fifteen poems (32 minutes) on 1 CD
  1. Among School Children
  2. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
  3. Broken Dreams
  4. Easter, 1916
  5. In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz
  6. Leda and the Swan
  7. Sailing to Byzantium
  8. September 1913
  1. The Cat and the Moon
  2. The Cold Heaven
  3. The Fisherman
  4. The Man and the Echo
  5. The Second Coming
  6. The Stolen Child
  7. The Wild Swans at Coole

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  • Wilfred Owen
  • William Blake

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