Poetry of the English Romantics

Tracks:

CD 1

JOHN KEATS
1. Ode to a Nightingale
2. Ode on a Grecian Urn
3. To Autumn
4. Ode to Melancholy
5. Keen fitful gusts are whispering
6. When I have fears that I may cease to be
7. Lines on the Mermaid tavern
8. A Song About Myself
9. On first looking into Chapman's Homer
10. Bright star! Would I were as steadfast as thou
11. La Belle Dame sans Merci
12. The Eve of St Agnes

Read by Sir Ralph Richardson, first published in 1958

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
13. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3rd, 1802
14. Strange fits of passion I have known
15. I travelled among unknown men
16. Tintern Abbey
17. Nuns feet not at their convent's narrow room
18. It is a beautiful evening, calm and free
19. The Solitary Reaper
20. The world is too much with us
21. My heart leaps up when I behold
22. Ode - Intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood

Read by Sir Cedric Hardwicke, first published in 1957

CD 2

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
1. Music, when soft voices die
2. With a guitar, to Jane
3. Ozymandias
4. Prometheus Unbound - 'My soul is an enchanted boat'
5. To a skylark
6. Hymn to intellectual beauty
7. Ode to the West Wind

Read by Vincent Price, first published in 1962

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
8. Kubla Khan
9. Frost at midnight
10. This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
11. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Read by Sir Ralph Richardson, first published in 1958

CD 3

LORD BYRON
1. She walks in beauty
2. On this day I complete my 36th year
3. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto III, vv. 18-28)
4. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto III, vv. 68-75)
5. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto III, vv. 85-98)
6. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto III, vv. 113-118)
7. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto IV, vv. 178-184)

Read by Tyrone Power

WILLIAM BLAKE
Songs of Innocence

8. Introduction
9. The Echoing Green
10. The Lamb
11. The Shepherd
12. The Infant Joy
13. The Little Black Boy
14. Spring
15. Nurse's Song
16. Holy Thursday
17. The Blossom
18. The Chimney Sweeper
19. The Divine Image
20. Night
21. On Another's Sorrow
22. The Little Boy Lost
23. The Little Boy Found

Songs of Experience
24. Introduction
25. Earth's Answer
26. Nurse's Song
27. The Fly
28. The Little Girl Lost
29. The Little Girl Found
30. The Clod and the Pebble
31. The Tiger
32. A Poison Tree
33. The Angel
34. The Sick Rose
35. The Voice of the Ancient Bard
36. My Pretty Rose tree
37. Ah! Sun Flower
38. The Garden of Love
39. A Little Boy Lost
40. Infant Sorrow
41. The School Boy
42. London
43. Divine
44. Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau
45. I asked a thief to steal me a peach
46. I saw a chapel all of gold
47. Auguries of Innocence
48. To the Muses
49. Oh, I say, you, Joe
50. The Crystal Cabinet
51. And did those feet in ancient time (from Milton)

Read by Sir Ralph Richardson, first published in 1959

Ralph Richardson (narrator), Cecile Hardwicke (narrator), Vincent Price (narrator), Tyrone Power (narrator)