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    The Ultimate Poetry Collection: Poetry of War, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry
    The Ultimate Poetry Collection: Poetry of War, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry
    The Ultimate Poetry Collection: Poetry of War, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry
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    The Ultimate Poetry Collection: Poetry of War, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry

    Written by Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake and

    Narrated by Sir John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Gwen Watford and full cast

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    About this audiobook

    William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time.

    A collection of the greatest poetry from the Romantic period, the battlefield, and the Victorian era, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors.

    Themes of war, love, nature, sexuality, and much more are played out in these timeless readings of poetry from the 19th and 20th century.

    Performed by Sir John Gielgud; Richard Burton; William Squire; Richard Marquand; Peggy Ashcroft; Margaretta Scott; Tony Church; Derek Godfrey; Patrick Garland; Gary Watson; Margaretta Scott; and Janette Richer; Gwen Watford; and David King.

    This collection includes poems from:
    • William Wordsworth
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    • William Blake
    • Thomas Hardy
    • WB Yeats
    • Robert Browning
    • Lord Alfred Tennyson
    • Christina Rossetti
    • Lord Byron
    • Wilfred Owen
    • Siegfried Sassoon
    • Percy Bysshe Shelley
    • John Keats
    • Gerard Manley Hopkins
    • Dante Gabriel Rossetti
    • Ted Hughes

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateNov 12, 2020
    ISBN9780008449254
    The Ultimate Poetry Collection: Poetry of War, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry
    Author

    Thomas Hardy

    Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.

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