The Treasury of Victorian Poetry
Written by Robert Browning, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti and
Narrated by Sir John Gielgud, Peter Orr, Gwen Watford and David King
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A collection of the greatest poetry from the Victorian era, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors.
Science, religion, and sexuality are played out in these timeless readings of poetry written during the Romantic period.
Performed by Sir John Gielgud; Peter Orr; Gwen Watford; and David King.
This collection includes poems from:
• Robert Browning
• Lord Alfred Tennyson
• Christina Rossetti
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• Algernon Charles Swinburne
• Paul Edmonds
• Matthew Arnold
• Haldreyn (William Morris)
• Arthur Hugh Clough
Robert Browning
Robert Browning (1812-1889) was an English poet and playwright. Browning was born in London to an abolitionist family with extensive literary and musical interests. He developed a skill for poetry as a teenager, while also learning French, Greek, Latin, and Italian. Browning found early success with the publication of Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835), but his career and notoriety lapsed over the next two decades, resurfacing with his collection Men and Women (1855) and reaching its height with the 1869 publication of his epic poem The Ring and the Book. Browning married the Romantic poet Elizabeth Barrett in 1846 and lived with her in Italy until her death in 1861. In his remaining years, with his reputation established and the best of his work behind him, Browning compiled and published his wife’s final poems, wrote a series of moderately acclaimed long poems, and traveled across Europe. Browning is remembered as a master of the dramatic monologue and a defining figure in Victorian English poetry.
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