Christmas Poetry & Prose: Read by Great Voices
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Christmas Poetry & Prose: Read by Great Voices
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Release Date: Friday 3 December 2021
This item is only available to us via Special Import.
"Few things capture Christmas as well as poetry, and many have become standard, including ones whose verses became carols too"
Readers include:
Alec Guinness,
Robert Donat,
Richard Burton,
Dulcie Gray,
Dylan Thomas
Robert Frost,
Annette Daniels Taylor
Basil Rathbone
Claire Bloom,
special Guest: Jonathan Jones
Poets include:
Robert Frost
Emily Dickinson
Wordsworth
Christina Rosetti
ee cummings
TS Eliot
Dylan Thomas
Tracks:
Preparations
1. Clement Moore: 'Twas the Night before Christmas (A Visit from
St.Nicholas) / Basil Rathbone 3:15
2. Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods / Robert Frost 0:50
3. Robert Frost: Dust of Snow / (author) 0:17
4. Eugene Field: When Santa Claus Comes / Jonathan Jones 0:45
5. John Betjeman: Christmas / Alec Guinness 2:13
6. E.E. Cummings: Little Tree / Jonathan Jones 1:23
Seasonal Regrets
7. Emily Dickinson: 'Twas just this time last year I died /
Annette Daniels Taylor 1:17
8. Alfred Lord Tennyson: Ring out Wild Bells !
(Canto CVI from In Memoriam A.H.H) / Jonathan Jones 2:05
9. Jill Furse: Carol / Robert Donat 0:42
10. Henry W. Longfellow: Christmas Bells / Jonathan Jones 1:59
Celebrations & Mythology
11. Edgar Guest: At Christmas / Jonathan Jones 2:23
12. Theodore Watts-Dunton: Wassail Chorus at the Mermaid
Tavern / Robert Donat 3:12
13. William Wordsworth: Minstrels / Jonathan Jones 1:02
14. Walter de la Mare: Mistletoe / Jonathan Jones 0:52
15. C.Day Lewis: The Christmas Tree / (author) 1:29
16. John Mason Neale: Good King Wenceslas / Jonathan Jones 1:54
Christmas Scenes
17. Shakespeare: When Icycles Hang / Claire Bloom 0:52
18. William Wordsworth: A Boisterous Winter Evening / Alec Clunes 2:20
19. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Frost at Midnight /
Richard Burton & Dulcie Gray 4:39
20. Laurie Lee: Christmas Landscape / Jonathan Jones 1:40
21. Thomas Hardy: Snow in the Suburbs / Carleton Hobbs 1:06
22. James Stephens: Donnybrook / Lewis Jones 0:57
23. Odette Tchernine: The Snow / Dulcie Gray 1:08
Biblical
24. Hilaire Belloc: Noel / Robert Donat 1:27
25. Sara Teasdale: Christmas Carol / Jonathan Jones 1:16
26. T.S. Eliot: Journey of the Magi / Alec Guinness 2:33
27. Thomas Hardy: The Oxen / Robert Donat 0:42
28. Christina Rosetti: In the Bleak Midwinter / Jonathan Jones 1:51
29. John Alexander Chapman: Christus Natus Est / Robert Donat 1:14
30. Anon. Cherry Tree Carol / Alec Guinness 2:11
31. Anon. I Syng of a Mayden ('Early Carol') / Robert Donat 0:48
32. St.Francis of Assisi: Prayer / Robert Donat 1:52
Prose & New Year
33. Dylan Thomas: A Child's Christmas in Wales / (read by author) 19:48
34. Robert Burns: Auld Lang Syne / Frederick Worlock 1:10
