Anthology of English Verse, Vol. 2: Read by Lally Bowers, Pauline Letts, V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, Carleton Hobbs, etc.
Various Artists

Tales of adventure, humor, and moral lessons fill the second volume of the Anthology of English Verse, a lively album featuring the work of noted poets such as W.H. Auden, William Wordsworth, Lewis Carroll, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Poems on this album include Lewis Carroll’s “You Are Old, Father William,” which describes a son questioning his father’s vivacity in his old age, and Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott,” which narrates the life of a woman Sir Lancelot discovers in Camelot. Rhythmically stimulating and with fascinating plots, each poem on the album is a story in itself. Liner notes include poem texts and a list of the readers’ names.
Track Listing
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W.H. Auden: Night Mail | John Laurie | 2:21 | |
102
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Lewis Carroll: You Are Old, Father William | V.C. Clinton-Baddeley | 1:53 | |
103
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Robert Herrick: To Daffodils | Pauline Letts | 0:56 | |
104
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William Wordsworth: The Solitary Reaper | Michael Hordern | 1:50 | |
105
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Sir Walter Scott: Jock of Haseldean | John Laurie | 1:22 | |
106
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Walter de la Mare: Sam | V.C. Clinton-Baddeley | 2:09 | |
107
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Lord Tennyson: The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls | Michael Hordern | 1:43 | |
108
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias | V.C. Clinton-Baddeley | 1:10 | |
109
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Robert Browning: How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix | C. Day Lewis | 3:43 | |
201
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Hilaire Belloc: Matilda, Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death | Lally Bowers | 2:22 | |
202
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Edmund Blunden: Forefathers | Carleton Hobbs | 2:00 | |
203
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Robert Graves: The General Elliott | V.C. Clinton-Baddeley | 1:44 | |
204
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John Fletcher: Orpheus with His Lute | Pauline Letts | 0:48 | |
205
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Anonymous: All's Well That Ends Well | John Laurie | 1:39 | |
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Lord Tennyson: The Lady of Shalott | Michael Hordern | 8:25 |