The London Library of Recorded English, Book I: Lyric Poetry

The first volume of the London Library of Recorded English is a collection of lyric poetry, which refers to a short poem, originally meant for musical accompaniment, in which the poet, the poet’s persona, or another speaker expresses personal feelings. The album includes readings of William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Thomas Hardy, and others by Dylan Thomas, James Stephens, Pauline Letts, and more.

Track Listing

101	James Shirley: Death the Leveller	Cecil Trouncer	01:29
102	William Blake: Jerusalem	V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	01:15
103	William Blake: The Tiger	V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	01:50
104	William Wordsworth: The Reverie of Poor Susan	V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	01:25
105	William Wordsworth: The Solitary Reaper	C. Day Lewis	01:57
106	William Wordsworth: She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways	Robert Harris	00:43
107	Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan	Robert Harris	03:40
108	Thomas Love Peacock: The War Song of Dinas Vawr	Dylan Thomas	02:21
109	John Keats: La Belle Dame sans Merci	Robert Harris	02:53
110	John Keats: Meg Merrilies	John Laurie	01:27
111	Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls	V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	01:53
112	Thomas Love Peacock: The Three Wise Men of Gotham	Dylan Thomas, James Stephens, E.A.J. Vetter, V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	01:28
113	William Morris: Inscription for a Bed at Kelmscott Manor	V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	01:26
114	Thomas Hardy: Weathers	Cecil Trouncer	00:58
115	Gerard Manley Hopkins: Pied Beauty	V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	00:58
116	Alice Meynell: The Shepherdess	Pauline Letts	01:06
117	A.E. Housman: Loveliest of Trees the Cherry Now	C. Day Lewis	00:44
118	Ralph Hodgson: Gypsy Girl	V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	01:11
119	W.H. Davies: The Kingfisher	Cecil Trouncer	01:12
120	W.H. Davies: Early Morn	Pauline Letts	01:12
121	Walter de la Mare: All That's Past	C. Day Lewis	01:09
122	Walter de la Mare: Song of Enchantment	Pauline Letts	01:08
123	Edward Thomas: If I Should Ever by Chance Grow Rich	V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	00:52
124	James Stephens: The County Mayo	James Stephens	01:33
125	James Stephens: The Fifteen Acres	James Stephens	01:44
126	W.J. Turner: Romance	V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	01:38
127	Edmund Blunden: Forefathers	Cecil Trouncer	01:58