Narrative Verse - Volume 3. Poetry can capture the imagination in a few short lines but Narrative Verse or Poetry takes the form of telling a story whether it be simple or complex in a longer form. Among the most ancient forms of poetry it has widespread roots through almost every culture. In Volume 3 we bring you the classics of Goblin Market - Christina Rosseti, The Wreck Of The Hesperus - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe, Morte D'Arthur - Alfred Lord Tennyson and from Horatius By Thomas Babington Maculay. They are read for you by the renowned actors Sean Barrett and David Shaw-Parker.
Death is a subject that few of us talk about, but many think about and more than a few of us dread. Whether it is the actual end of our life's journey or merely a transit point to Heavenly glory its actual point of impact is, obviously, life changing. But what do poets think of it? How do their minds tangle with the subject and make sense of this? That's what we thought too. Poets as rich and diverse as Tennyson, Hardy, Shelley & Poe here share their words, thoughts and visions with us. Death is unavoidable but the journey there should be as informed and enjoyable as possible. On this Volume our readers include Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe
December - The 12th month and closing month in the Gregorian calendar. Winter is upon the land and the poets including such as Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Shakespeare and Stevenson reflect their views and thoughts
Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The tracks are; December - An Introduction; Ode Written On The First Of December By Robert Southey; A Calendar Of Sonnets - December By Helen Hunt Jackson; A December Day By Robert Fuller Murray; A Wife In London (December 1899) By Thomas Hardy; Come Come Thou Bleak December Wind (Fragment 3) By Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Snow-Bound (The Sun That Brief December Day) By John Greenleaf Whittier; How Like A Winter Hath my Absence Been - Sonnet 97 By William Shakespeare; December By John Payne; Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills By Percy Bysshe Shelley; Sicily December 1908 By Henry Van Dyke; December By John Bannister Tabb; December Sales Drive By Daniel Sheehan; The Idlers Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Year - December By Wilfred Scawen Blunt; The December Rose By Edith Nesbit; On The Death Of Major Whitefoord, December 15th 1825 By Eliza Acton; December Matins By Alfred Austin; To A Lady Who Presented to The Author A Lock Of Hair Braided With His Own And Appointed A Night In December To Meet Him In The Garden By Lord Byron; Winter Stores By Charlotte Bronte; In Drear Nighted December By John Keats; The Foolish Fir Tree By Henry Van Dyke; The Death Of The Old Year By Alfred Lord Tennyson; Christmas At Sea By Robert Louis Stevenson; December 23rd 1879 By George MacDonald; Old Christmastide (An Extract) By Sir Walter Scott; Christmas Bells By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Ceremonies For Christmas By Robert Herrick; December 27th 1879 By George MacDonald; At The Entering Of The New Year By Thomas Hardy; Ring Out Wild Bells By Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Joseph Millson reads Alfred Lord Tennyson's 1855 dark and lyrical poem 'Maud' in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the poet's birth in 2009. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the 'Classic Serial' slot on 26 July 2009 and repeated on 1 August 2009. A disturbed young man roams the windswept hills, haunted by his father's suicide and his mother's early death. He blames his father's old friend, the lord of the Hall, for his ruin. The young man was betrothed to Maud, the lord's daughter, when they were children, but she and her family left the area after the suicide. But now there are workmen up at the Hall - Maud has come home. Read by Joseph Millson, with Kathryn Nutbeem. 'Maud' features sound design by Christopher Shutt, and was directed Abigail le Fleming.
