Listen to the sound of English as it was meant to be heard. The only authorized audio companion to the widely-respected Norton Anthology of Poetry, Third Edition, this audio collection includes the greatest poems of the English Language, ranging from the writings of Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, and Wordsworth, to the best-loved verse of Whitman, Dickinson, the Brownings, and Yeats39 poets in all. The readings by brilliant classic actors Alexander Scourby, Nancy Wickwire, and Bramwell Fletcher are presented in the order they appear in Norton and are selected for their ability to delight. It is simply a collection of the best. 2 CD set.
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Alexander Scourby is a distinguished actor who has appeared in such films as The Glory Brigade, Man on a String, and Affair in Trinidad. Mr. Scourby has also narrated more than 500 audiobooks. He is perhaps best known as "The Voice of the Bible" as his narration is regarded as the very best on the market.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Worth writing up a track listing for it!,
By William Roarshock (Oregon USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 81 Famous Poems (Audio CD)
A worthwhile collection, but a track listing didn't seem to be included with my CDs, nor is it posted here. So here are the tracks as I wrote them down while they were playing. (And if you count carefully, you'll notice there are only 80 tracks listed, not 81. Two of EB Browning's sonnets are together in one track.)
CD-1 01. Anonymous Early Song: The Cuckoo Song 02. Sir Thomas Wyatt: Whoso List to Hunt 03. Sir Walter Raleigh: The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd 04. Sir Walter Raleigh: The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage 05. Sir Philip Sidney: Sonnet 1 from Astrophel and Stella 06. Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love 07. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 18 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 08. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 29 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes 09. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 116 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds 10. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 129 - Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame 11. Thomas Campion: When to Her Lute Corina Sings 12. Thomas Campion: Rose-cheeked Laura 13. Thomas Campion: There is a Garden in Her Face 14. John Dunne: Song - Go and catch a falling star 15. John Dunne: The Sun Rising 16. John Dunne: Sonnet 10 from Holy Sonnets - Death, be not proud 17. Ben Johnson: Song: To Celia 18. Robert Herrick: The Argument of His Book 19. Robert Herrick: Delight in Disorder 20. Robert Herrick: To the Virgins to Make Much of Time 21. Robert Herrick: Upon Julia's Clothes 22. George Herbert: The Collar 23. George Herbert: The Pulley 24. George Herbert: Love (III) 25. John Milton: When I Consider How My Light Is Spent (a.k.a. On His Blindness) 26. John Suckling: Song - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? 27. John Suckling: Out upon It! (aka The Constant Lover) 28. Richard Lovelace: To Althea, from Prison 29. Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress 30. Andrew Marvell: The Definition of Love 31. Henry Vaughan: The Retreat 32. John Dryden: A Song for St. Cecilia's Day 33. Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 34. William Blake: from Poetical Sketches, Song 35. William Blake: from Songs of Innocence, Introduction 36. William Blake: from Songs of Innocence, The Lamb 37. William Blake: from Songs of Experience, The Tyger 38. Robert Burns: To Mouse 39. Robert Burns: A Red, Red Rose 40. William Wordsworth: She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways 41. William Wordsworth: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 42. William Wordsworth: My Heart Leaps Up 43. William Wordsworth: The World Is Too Much With Us 44. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan CD-2 01. George Gordon, Lord Byron: She Walks in Beauty 02. George Gordon, Lord Byron: When We Two Parted 03. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias 04. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West Wind 05. Percy Bysshe Shelley: To a Skylark 06. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Adonais (stanzas 1, 39, 54, and 55) 07. John Keats: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 08. John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn 09. John Keats: Bright Star 10. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Concord Hymn 11. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Rhodora 12. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese: 1, 43 13. Edgar Allan Poe: To Helen 14. Edgar Allan Poe: The City in the Sea 15. Edgar Allan Poe: Annabel Lee 16. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Break, Break, Break 17. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Songs from The Princess, The Splendor Falls 18. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tears, Idle Tears 19. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal 20. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Eagle 21. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Crossing the Bar 22. Robert Browning: My Last Duchess 23. Robert Browning: Home-Thoughts from Abroad 24. Walt Whitman: Song of Myself (parts 1, 6, 21 and 31) 25. Walt Whitman: O Captain! My Captain! 26. Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach 27. Emily Dickinson: 303 - The Soul selects her own Society 28. Emily Dickinson: 986 - A narrow Fellow in the Grass 29. Christina Rossetti: Up-Hill 30. Algernon Charles Swinburne: The Garden of Proserpine 31. Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush 32. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Pied Beauty 33. Alfred Edward Housman: Lovliest of Trees, the Cherry Now 34. Alfred Edward Housman: With Rue My Heart Is Laden 35. William Butler Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree 36. William Butler Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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William, many thanks for your Track Listing; here are the Narrators,
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This review is from: 81 Famous Poems (Audio CD)
We dedicated fans of poetry audiobooks must be über-masochists, considering how abysmally few of these recordings (including virtually all anthologies from Audible.com) provide us with acceptable TOCs, or even deign to match the narrators to their poems in multi-narrator** collections. Yet we still fork over our loot ($$$) and (mostly) enjoy our purchases!
Kudos to previous reviewer William Roarshock for his painstaking and generous contribution of the Track Listing. That still leaves the purchaser/listener of "81 Famous Poems" (a fine poetry collection, by the way) not knowing who narrates each poem. Fortunately there are only three narrators (identified in the product description as "authors") in this compilation, and one of them is female: that would be Nancy Wickwire (1925-1974). Of the two men, one, Bramwell Fletcher (1904-1988), was British; the other, Alexander Scourby (1913-1985), American. And so by their accents ye shall know them. For interested parties, all three narrators are profiled in Wikipedia. Alas, it's rarely this "easy" -- even with the major effort of William Roarshock and my own comparatively miniscule detective work -- to identify pertinent equivalent information about other audiobooks. ----------------- **For multi-narrator poetry collections, a method that sometimes works -- at least when readers are represented in Audible's considerable stable of eminent poetry/prose narrators -- is to search for readers in their "Search By"-->"Narrator" box at http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/homepage ; by honing in on single-narrator works and listening to the short free excerpt; you can get pretty good at recognizing voices. Finally, though, about all you can do for untitled poems in these audiobooks is to listen and search for interesting lines (typed between quotation marks) via Google. You'll find almost all poets and poem titles on the web that way. ----------------- But REALLY -- notwithstanding its "educational value" -- isn't this a ridiculous amount of work, an untenable burden really, for Amazon (in its avatars as Amazon.com, Audible.com, and of course Kindle) to place on its most dedicated customers?!! Sigh ... I suppose this must remain a rhetorical question.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good Buy!,
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This review is from: 81 Famous Poems (Audio CD)
I got just what I wanted:great English language recorded poems.The readings are rpofessional and the choice is pretty logical considering the amount of space,otherwise you'd need twenty CDs to record the most important English literature poems...and still you might say that many gems were left out.
Of course anyone might say that ...maybe some more Shakespeare sonnets or Coleridge or T.S. Eliot...would have made this collection more perfect. Anthologies are not made to please everyone.
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