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Written by William Blake, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron & John Clare - Audio book performed by Michael Sheen with music by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann & Brahms - Unabridged Selections - Fiction - 2 COMPACT DISCS - 2 hours, 38 minutes

Publisher, Naxos Audiobooks (September 1994)

"The Tyger... I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud... Ode to the West Wind... The Rime of the Ancient Mariner... Ode to a Nightingale... We'll go no more a-roving... The Peasant Poet"

"All good poetry" wrote Wordsworth, "is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings." and this was to be one of the hallmarks of the Romantic Poets. With a dynamic spirit, these great English poets made a conscious return to nostalgia and spiritual depth. Each chose a different path, but they are united in a love of moods, impressions, scenes, stories, sights and sounds. In this collection of more than 40 poems are some of the finest and most memorable works in the English language.

About the Narrator: Michael Sheen trained at RADA. He appeared at Manchester's Royal Exchange in Look Back in Anger and Romeo and Juliet, in Ninagawa's Peer Gynt, the World Premier of Pinter's Moonlight and the Royal National Theatre's Ends of the Earth. He has played Henry V for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has appeared in the films Mary Reilly, Othello and Wilde.

Poems in this edition:

Compact Disc 1, Side 1 - (42 minutes, 10 seconds)

William Blake 1757-1827

The Tyger
The Lamb
Earth's Answer
The Sick Rose
Auguries of Innocence
Night
Love's Secret
Jerusalem

William Wordsworth 1770-1850

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Expostulation and Reply
The tables Turned
Tintern Abbey

Compact Disc 1, Side 2 – (37 minutes, 3 seconds)

William Wordsworth (continued)

The World
The Solitary Reaper
The Rainbow
Perfect Woman
To My Sister

Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822

Ozymondias
Ode to the West Wind
To Jane: The Invitation
The Moon
To a Skylark
Sonnet
From Epipsychidion: (Three Sermons on Free Love; The Annihilation of Love)

John Keats 1795-1821

To Autumn
Ode on a Grecian Urn la Belle Dome Sans Merci

Total time on Compact Disc 1: 1 hour, 19 minutes, 13 seconds

Compact Disc 2, Side 1 - (43 minutes, 17 seconds)

John Keats (continued)

From Endymion
Ode on Melancholy
Fancy
Ode to a Nightingale

Lord Byron 1788-1824

When We Two Parted
She Walks in Beauty
The Destruction of Sennacherib
One struggle more, and I am free
From Don Juan
We'll go no more a-roving

Compact Disc 2, Side 2 - (35 minutes, 25 seconds)

John Clare 1793-1864

The Peasant Poet
I Am

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834

Kubla Khan
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Total Time on Compact Disc 2: 1 hour, 18 minutes, 42 seconds

Total Time on Compact Discs 1-2: 2 hours, 37 minutes, 55 seconds