English Romantic Poetry

Although Romantic poetry is a universal phenomenon, the English language has produced an abundance of masters of the genre. This selection, which includes works by Blake, Burns, Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Wordsworth, represents the poets at their imaginative and eloquent best.

Rendered in the distinctive voices of stage legends Anthony Quayle, Claire Bloom, and Ralph Richardson, this recording captures the emotional range and the intensely personal quality that characterizes English Romantic poetry.

Audio includes:

Kubla Khan and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sweet Was the Song, Corinna to Tanagra, and Pericles and Aspasia by Walter Savage London

The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls and Child's Song by Thomas Moore

The Nile and Rondeau by James Henry Leigh Hunt

Song by Thomas Love Peacock

So, We'll Go No More a Roving, She Walks in Beauty, Fare Thee Well, and "Lake Leman" from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron

The Indian Serenade, Adonias, Parts I, II, III, LII, LIII, LIV, LV, Ode to the West Wind, and Music, When Soft Voices Die by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Songs of Innocence, Introduction, The Lamb, The Shepherd, Infant Joy, The Little Black Boy, The Chimney Sweeper, The Little Boy Lost, The Little Boy Found, Songs of Experience, Introduction, The Clod and the Pebble, The Tyger, and A Poison Tree by William Blake

To a Mouse, To a Louse, A Man's Man for A'That, Sic a Wife as Willie Had, The Banks o'Doon, John Anderson, My Jo, Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns

It is a Beauteous Evening Calm and Free, The World is Too Much With Us, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, She Was a Phantom of Delight, The Solitary Reaper, The Daffodils, and Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth

Coronach and Anna-Marie, Love, Up is the Sun by Walter Scott

Written in Northampton County Asylum by John Clare

Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, To Autumn, Ode on Melancholy, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, On First Looking in to Chapman's Homer, Lines on the Mermaid Tavern, A Song About Myself, When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be, Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast as Thou Art, Keen Fitful Gusts are Whispering, and Sonnet to Sleep by John Keats

Sonnet and Silence by Thomas Hood

Song, The Phantom-Wooer, and Love-in-Idleness by Thomas Lovell Beddoes