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

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

101	W.H. Auden: Night Mail	John Laurie	02:21
102	Lewis Carroll: You Are Old, Father William	V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	01:53
103	Robert Herrick: To Daffodils	Pauline Letts	00:56
104	William Wordsworth: The Solitary Reaper	Michael Hordern	01:50
105	Sir Walter Scott: Jock of Haseldean	John Laurie	01:22
106	Walter de la Mare: Sam	V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	02:09
107	Lord Tennyson: The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls	Michael Hordern	01:43
108	Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias	V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	01:10
109	Robert Browning: How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix	C. Day Lewis	03:43
201	Hilaire Belloc: Matilda, Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death	Lally Bowers	02:22
202	Edmund Blunden: Forefathers	Carleton Hobbs	02:00
203	Robert Graves: The General Elliott	V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	01:44
204	John Fletcher: Orpheus with His Lute	Pauline Letts	00:48
205	Anonymous: All's Well That Ends Well	John Laurie	01:39
206	Lord Tennyson: The Lady of Shalott	Michael Hordern	08:25