Anthology of English Verse. Vol. 1

Read by Jill Balcon, V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, John Glen, Christopher Hassall, etc. — Folkways Records, 1961. — 204 kbps. — Продолжительность 00:31:46.This first volume of the Anthology of English Verse is a lively performance of familiar poems, including William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” and Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussycat.” The poems are read by Jill Balcon, V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, John Glen, Christopher Hassall, Harry Hutchinson, and C. Day-Lewis. Harry Hutchinson’s reading of James Stephens’ “The Fifteen Acres” takes on a musical quality, as Hutchinson emphasizes the rhythmic and lyrical nature of the poem. Other poems feature stories of the sea and the biblical story of Eve. Liner notes include poem texts.Thomas Love Peacock: The Wise Men of Gotham
John Clare: On a Lane in Spring
John Masefield: Mother Carey
Lord Tennyson: The Brook
Walter de la Mare: Five Eyes
James Stephens: The Fifteen Acres
William Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
W.S. Gilbert: The Yarn of the Nancy Bell
William Blake: England Awake!
John Keats: Old Meg Jill
Edward Lear: The Owl and the Pussycat
Rudyard Kipling: The Snow Lies Thick on Valley Forge
John Clare: Clock-a-Clay
Ralph Hodgson: Eve
Thomas Hardy: Weathers
W.B. Yeats: The Fiddler of Dooney
Edward Lear: Calico Pie
A.E. Housman: Loveliest of Trees
Walter de la Mare: Off the Ground