Great Poets of the Romantic Age

By: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, John Clare

Narrated by: Michael Sheen

"The Tyger"… "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"…"Ode to the West Wind"…"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"…"Ode to a Nightingale"…"We’ll go no more a-roving"…"The Peasant Poet"

‘All good poetry,’ wrote Wordsworth, ‘is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ and this was to be one of the hallmarks of the Romantic poets.

With a dynamic spirit, these great English poets made a conscious return to nostalgia and spiritual depth. Each chose a different path, but they are united in a love of moods, impressions, scenes, stories, sights and sounds. In this collection of more than forty poems are some of the finest and most memorable works in the English language.

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Amaizing performanxe! Byron’s Don Juan is remarkable

I love this! The selection and it has an amaizing perfomance. I frecuently listen to it, the best of the Romantics

Definitely Worthwhile!!

I will listen to it again and again with great pleasure. It is an excellently performed canonical selection.

Spectacular Narration

I loved the acting and the actual narration done by true artists. You will love this. It leaves you craving more. Bravo! Bravo!

Superb performances

I liked Blake, Wordsworth, Byron and Coleridge best. Don Juan by Byron is genius. A terrific female voice which sounded like another performer. Love listening to poetry. The musical element in so many poems was so strong and you hear it! A great education. I listened several times and will listen again.

7.0/10– Byron and Coleridge top notch, the rest flop

Skip to Byron and Rime of the Ancient Mariner for the magic. The rest are decent to slow, repetitive.