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Poetry by: William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton, William Blake, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Hardy, D.H. Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, William Butler Yeats, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and Ted Hughes.

Unabridged Poetry - Fiction - 2 CASSETTES - 3 hours

Publisher, Harper Audio/Caedmon (1998)

Here for your enjoyment Caedmon has collected twenty-one of the greatest poets of the English language. Their masterworks include:

The Tyger
A Red, Red Rose
If
The Second Coming
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Those who've come to love these works on the page will find an added, entrancing dimension to them on this audio: the sheer, delightful sound of great poetry. In addition to the authors' who bring a special insight into the words to their readings' international stars of the stage and screen interpret the works, conveying atmosphere and on through splendid performances. Only a few of the pleasures to be heard on this audio:

James Mason's confessional intimacy in his reading of Browning's Memorabilia.

Dylan Thomas' exhilarating energy on Gerard Manley Hopkins' complex The Leaden Echo and The Golden Echo.

Richard Burton's simple but moving rendering of the spare, intense imagery in Thomas Hardy's Beyond the Last Lamp.

The surprising warmth and vibrant humanity Boris Karloff brings to Kipling's If

The robust, almost violently powerful wordplay Ted Hughes brings to life in his brilliant reading of his own The Jaguar.

Whether comparing your own reading of a favorite poem to the author's or discovering a new favorite, The Caedmon Collection of English Poetry is a listening experience you'll return to again and again.