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Track Listing
Billy Collins Introduction
A Child's Christmas In Wales, A Story
Fern Hill
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
In The White Giant's Thigh
Ballad Of The Long-legged Bait
Ceremony After A Fire Raid
A Few Words Of A Kind
On The Marriage Of A Virgin
The Hunchback In The Park
Over Sir John's Hill
Laugharne
Especially When The October Wind
Billy Collins Introduction
Lament
Poem On His Birthday
Should Lanterns Shine
There Was A Saviour
A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London
If I Were Tickled By The Rub Of Love
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
A Winter's Tale
Author's Prologue
The Hand That Signed The Paper
Altarwise By Owl Light [1st Verse]
The Tombstone Told When She Died
If My Head Hurt A Hair's Foot
Poem In October (It Was My Thirtieth Year)
Love In The Asylum
In My Craft Or Sullen Art
Dawn Raid
Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines
After The Funeral
In Country Sleep
Billy Collins Introduction
Quite Early One Morning
Reminiscences Of Childhood
A Visit To Grandpa's
Holiday memory
A Story
Billy Collins Introduction
The voice of Dylan Thomas, an introduction by Douglas Cleverdon
Introduction To Over Sir John's Hill
In Country Heaven (excerpt) / Read By Hugh Griffith
Various Revisions Of In Country Heaven Which Resulted In The Final Version / Read By Douglas Cleverdon, Hugh Griffith, Basil Jones -- Humphrey Searle Reminiscing
Over Sir John's Hill
In Country Sleep
In The White Giant's Thigh
Edith Sitwell Discussing Harvest
Harvest (excerpt)
Edith Sitwell Discussing The Two Loves
The Two Loves (excerpt)
Edith Sitwell Discussing The Shadow Of Cain
The Shadow Of Cain (excerpt)
Edith Sitwell Discussing The Shadow Of Cain
The Shadow Of Cain (excerpt)
Edith Sitwell Discussing The Canticle Of The Rose
The Canticle Of The Rose
Edith Sitwell Discussing The Bee-keeper
The Bee-keeper
Edith Sitwell Discussing Heart And Mind
Heart And Mind
Still Falls The Rain
Billy Collins Introduction
A Visit To America, An Irreverant Preamble
The Bards / By Walter de la Mare
Master And Bos'n Song / By W.H. Auden
As I Walked Out One Evening / By W.H. Auden
Chard Witlow : Mr. T.S. Eliot's Sunday Evening Broadcast Postscript / By Henry Reed
Naming Of Parts / By Henry Reed
The Owl / By Edward Thomas
Broken Appointment / By Thomas Hardy
To Lizbie Browne / By Thomas Hardy
In Death Divided / By Thomas Hardy
An Irreverant Introduction
The Traveler's Curse After Misdirection, Translated From The Welsh
A Glass Of Beer / By James Stephens
One Poet Visits Another / By W.H. Davies
An Introduction To Thomas Hardy
To Lizbie Browne / By Thomas Hardy
The Ruined Maid / By Thomas Hardy
Lent / By W.R. Rodgers
Song / By Alun Lewis
To My Son Aged Eight / By John Betjeman
As I Walked Out One Evening / Byw. H. Auden
Master And Bos'n Song / By W.H. Auden
Passing The Graveyard / Andrew Young
In Tara's Halls / By W.B. Yeats
The Three Bushes / By W.B. Yeats
Lapis Lazuli / By W.B. Yeats
This Side Of The Truth / By Dylan Thomas
In My Craft Or Sullen Art / By Dylan Thomas
Billy Collins Introduction
The Speech Of Oedipus At Colonus / By W.B. Yeats
Three Things / By W.B. Yeats
The Circus Animals / By W.B. Yeats
Leda And The Swan / By W.B. Yeats
Solomon And The Witch / By W.B. Yeats
Long-legged Fly / By W.B. Yeats
The Three Bushes / By W.B. Yeats
The Dialogue Of Self And Soul (excerpt) / By W.B. Yeats
For Anne Gregory / By W.B. Yeats
The Libertine / By Louis MacNeice
News Of The World II / By George Barker
At The Keyhole / By Walter de la Mare
A Novelette / By Louis MacNeice
A Woman's History / By W.H. Davies
Whales, Weep Not / By D.H. Lawrence
September 1, 1939 / By W.H. Auden
I Knock At The Door, Chapter II (excerpt) / By Sean O'Casey
Watchman, What Of The Night? From Nightwood / By Djuna Barnes
Billy Collins Introduction
The Collier / By Vernon Watkins
Child Lovers / By W.H. Davies
Sacco Writes To His Son / By Alun Lewis
The Child On The Cliffs / By Edward Thomas
Strange Meeting (parts One And Two) / By Wilfred Owen
John Kinsella's Lament From Mrs. Mary Moore / By W.B. Yeats
The Leaden Echo And The Golden Echo / By Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Ship Of Death / By D.H. Lawrence
Polly Perkins / Anonymous
Welsh Incident / By Robert Graves
Counting The Beats / By Robert Graves
Lift Boy / By Robert Graves
Old Man / By Edward Thomas
Naming Of Parts / By Henry Reed
O Boys! O Boys! / By Oliver St. John Gogarty
My Dark-headed Kathchen / By John Manifold
Evening In The Sanitarium / By Louise Bogan
Parody 'I Climb The Stairs After A Tedious Masquerade ... ' / By Patrick Boland
Senex / By John Betjeman
On A Portrait Of A Deaf Man / By John Betjeman
The Day Set For Our Wedding / Donagh MacDonagh
The Flying Bum / By William Plomer
Billy Collins Introduction
King Lear, Act I, Scene 4, Beginning "How Now, My Pretty Knave, How Dost Thou?" / By William Shakespeare
King Lear, Act Ii, Scene 4, Beginning "Hear Me My Lord" / By William Shakespeare
King Lear, Act Iii, Scene 2 / By William Shakespeare
King Lear, Act Iv, Scene 7, Beginning "Where Have I Been?" / By William Shakespeare
The Duchess Of Malfi, Act Iv, Scene.2, Beginning "I Am Come To Tell You Your Brother Hath Intended You Some Sport" / By John Webster
Paradise Lost Book I. 242-270 / By John Milton
Paradise Lost Book I. 315-330 / By John Milton
Paradise Lost Book I. 622-663 / By John Milton
Paradise Lost Book II. 430-466 / By John Milton
Paradise Lost Book II. 681-877 / By John Milton
Paradise Lost Book II. 817-844 / By John Milton
Paradise Lost Book II. 968-987 / By John Milton
Comus 331-342 / By John Milton
Comus 366-385 / By John Milton
Comus 407-475 / By John Milton
Comus 586-608 / By John Milton
Dr. Faustus, "Ah, Faustus, Now Hast Thou But One Bare Hour To Live ..." / By Christopher Marlowe
Billy Collins Introduction
Under Milk Wood Part 1
Under Milk Wood Part 2
Under Milk Wood Part 3
Billy Collins introduction
Under Milk Wood Part 4
Return Journey To Swansea (full Cast)
On Reading Poetry Aloud, A Bbc Talk By Dylan Thomas
If My Head Hurt A Hair's Foot
On Reading Poetry Aloud, A Bbc Talk By Dylan Thomas Continued
Poem In October (It Was My Thirtieth Year)
From Adventures In The Skin Trade : Among Those Killed In The Dawn Raid Was A Man Aged One Hundred
The Force That Through The Green Fuse
Billy Collins Introduction
Adventures In The Skin Trade, Chapter I, A Fine Beginning, Part 4 (beginning)
Adventures In The Skin Trade, Chapter I, Part 4 (conclusion)
Chapter II, Plenty Of Furniture, Part 1 (beginning)
Chapter II, Part 1 (conclusion)
Chapter II, part 2
Chapter II, part 3
Chapter II, part 4
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