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.
Love Poetry Through the Ages (A Level AQA A Selection)
14 poems, 20 minutes on one CD:
- 'Whoso List to Hunt' by Thomas Wyatt
- Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
- 'The Flea' by John Donne
- 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell
- 'The Scrutiny' by Richard Lovelace
- 'Absent from Thee' by John Wilmot by Earl of Rochester
- 'The Garden of Love' by William Blake
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- 'Ae Fond Kiss' by Robert Burns
- 'She Walks in Beauty' by Lord Byron
- 'Remember' by Christina Rossetti
- 'The Ruined Maid' by Thomas Hardy
- 'At an Inn' by Thomas Hardy
- 'La Belle Dame sans Merci' by John Keats
- 'Non sum Qualis eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae' by Ernest Dowson
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John Keats Selected Poems (A Level AQA B Selection)
4 poems, 98 minutes on three CDs:
- 'Lamia'
- 'Isabella'
- 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'
- 'The Eve of St Agnes'
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Scars Upon My Heart (Selection for A Level AQA A)
18 poems, 30 minutes on one CD:
- 'From A Trench' by Maude Anna Bell
- 'Drafts' by Nora Bomford
- 'A Volunteer' by Helen Parry Eden
- 'The Wykehamist' by Nora Griffiths
- 'Convalescence' by Amy Lowell
- 'The Cenotaph, September 1919' by Charlotte Mew
- 'May, 1915' by Charlotte Mew
- 'June,
1915' by Charlotte Mew
- 'In A Restaurant, 1917' by Eleanour Norton
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- 'The Minority: 1917' by May O'Rourke
- 'SALL, (In Aid of the Wounded Horses)' by Inez Quilter (Aged 11 years)
- 'Y.M.C.A.' by C. A. L. T.
- 'Spring in War-Time' by Sara Teasdale
- 'There will come soft rains' by Sara Teasdale
- 'The Broken Soldier' by Katherine Tynan
- 'A Girl's Song' by Katherine Tynan
- 'Joining the Colours' (West Kents, Dublin, August 1914) by Katherine Tynan
- 'Autumn, 1914' by Mary Webb
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The Oxford Book of War Poetry: Poetry Recordings (Selection for A Level AQA A)
34 poems, 62 minutes on two CDs:
- 'Men Who March Away' by Thomas Hardy
- 'In Time of The Breaking of Nations' by Thomas Hardy
- 'Peace' by Rupert Brooke
- 'The Dead' by Rupert Brooke
- 'The Soldier' by Rupert Brooke
- 'Into Battle' by Julian Grenfell
- 'In Flanders Fields' by John McCrae
- 'All the hills and vales along' by Charles Sorley, read in an English accent
- 'All the hills and vales along' by Charles Sorley, read in a Scottish accent
- 'When you see millions of the mouthless dead' by Charles Sorley, read in an English accent
- 'When you see millions of the mouthless dead' by Charles Sorley, read in an Scottish accent
- 'Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries' by A E Housman
- 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death' by W B Yeats
- 'In Memoriam' (August 1915) by Edward Thomas
- 'The Cherry Trees' by Edward Thomas
- 'Rain' by Edward Thomas
- 'As the Team's Head Brass' by Edward Thomas
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- 'To His Love' by Ivor Gurney
- 'Ballad of the Three Spectres' by Ivor Gurney
- 'The Silent One' by Ivor Gurney
- 'On Receiving News of the War' by Isaac Rosenberg
- 'August 1914' by Isaac Rosenberg
- 'Break of Day in the Trenches' by Isaac Rosenberg
- 'Dead Man's Dump' by Isaac Rosenberg
- 'Returning, We Hear the Larks' by Isaac Rosenberg
- 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' by Wilfred Owen
- 'Dulce et Decorum est' by Wilfred Owen
- 'Exposure' by Wilfred Owen
- 'Insensibility' by Wilfred Owen
- 'The Send-Off' by Wilfred Owen
- 'Futility' by Wilfred Owen
- 'Strange Meeting' by Wilfred Owen
- 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard' by G K Chesterton
- 'Epitaphs of the War' by Rudyard Kipling
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Alfred Tennyson: Poetry Recordings (A Level AQA B Literature Selection)
6 poems, 40 minutes on one CD:
- 'The Lotos-Eaters and the Choric Song'
- 'Ulysses'
- 'Tithonus'
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- 'Godiva'
- 'The Lady of Shalott'
- 'Mariana'
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Lyrical Ballads
4 poems, 10 parts, 85 minutes on two CDs:
- 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (in seven parts)
- 'Goody Blake and Harry Gill' by William Wordsworth
- 'The Thorn' by William Wordsworth
- 'The Idiot Boy' by William Wordsworth
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Pre-1800 Pastoral Poetry
10 poems, 64 minutes on one CD:
- 'The Garden' by Andrew Marvell
- 'The Mower, Against Glow Worms' by Andrew Marvell
- 'The Mower's Song' by Andrew Marvell
- 'The Mower to the Glow Worms' by Andrew Marvell
- 'Damon the Mower' by Andrew Marvell
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- Paradise Lost Book IX Lines 192-269 by John Milton
- 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' by Thomas Gray
- 'Ode to Evening' by William Collins
- 'The Deserted Village' by Oliver Goldsmith
- 'Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth
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Up the Line to Death
60 poems, 92 minutes on two CDs:
- From 'Men Who March Away (Song of the Soldiers)' Thomas Hardy
- 'Happy is England Now' John Freeman
- 'The Call' W N Hodgson
- 'England to her Sons' W N Hodgson
- 'Peace' Rupert Brooke
- 'Officer's Mess' Harold Monroe
- 'No One Cares Less Than I' Edward Thomas
- From an Untitled Poem ('Light-lipped and singing...') C H Sorley, read with an English accent
- From an Untitled Poem ('Light-lipped and singing...') C H Sorley, read with a Scottish accent
- Untitled ('All the hills and vales along...') C H Sorley, read with an English accent
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Untitled ('All the hills and vales along...') C H Sorley, read with a Scottish accent
- 'Magpies in Picardy' T P Cameron Wilson
- 'Soliloquy' Francis Ledwidge
- 'Before Action' W N Hodgson
- 'The Aisne' Alan Seegar
- 'Rendezvous' Alan Seegar
- 'A Listening Post' R E Vernède
- 'Before the Summer' E A Mackintosh
- 'Into Battle' Julian Grenfell
- 'Chemin des Dames' Crosbie Garstin
- 'This is no Case of Petty Right or Wrong' Edward Thomas
- Untitled ('When you see millions...') C H Sorley, read with an English accent
- Untitled ('When you see millions...') C H Sorley, read with a Scottish accent
- 'To Germany' C H Sorley, read with an English accent
- 'To Germany' C H Sorley, read with a Scottish accent
- 'The Dead' Rupert Brooke
- 'The Anxious Dead' John McCrae
- 'In Flanders Fields' John McCrae
- 'An Irish Airman foresees his Death' W B Yeats
- 'On the Wings of the Morning' Jeffrey Day
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- 'Outward Bound' Nowell Oxland
- Untitled ('I saw a man this morning...') Patrick Shaw-Stewart
- 'Mesapotamia' Rudyard Kipling
- 'Bombed in London' Rudyard Kipling
- 'The War Films' Sir Henry Newbolt
- 'The Verdicts (Jutland)' Rudyard Kipling
- 'Nineteen-fifteen' John Drinkwater
- 'In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' Thomas Hardy
- 'From the Somme' Leslie Coulson
- 'Kismet' R. B. Marriott-Watson
- 'In Memoriam' E. A. Mackintosh
- 'To My Daughter Betty' T M Kettle
- 'How Long, O Lord?' Robert Palmer
- 'Returning, we hear the Larks' Isaac Rosenberg
- 'The Dying Soldier' Isaac Rosenberg
- 'Break of Day in the Trenches' Isaac Rosenberg
- 'A Death-bed' Rudyard Kipling
- 'Recruiting' E A Mackintosh
- 'Home Thoughts in Laventie' E W Tennant
- 'The Mad Soldier' E W Tennant
- 'Louse Hunting' Isaac Rosenberg
- 'Dead Man's Dump' Isaac Rosenberg
- 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' Wilfred Owen
- 'Exposure' Wilfred Owen
- 'The Sentry' Wilfred Owen
- 'Strange Meeting' Wilfred Owen
- 'Dulce et Decorum est' Wilfred Owen
- 'A Dead Statesman' Rudyard Kipling
- 'Here Dead we Lie' A E Housman
- 'Common Form' Rudyard Kipling
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