The Brontës - Selected Poems
The Brontës - Selected Poems
Unabridged readings of 40 classic poems by the Brontë siblings: Emily, Charlotte, Anne and Branwell. Read by Miriam Margolyes and Barnaby Edwards (who also directs), the poems are enhanced by scene-setting musical introductions from composer Howard Carter.
Duration: 88 minutes
Released: 20 March 2011
Format: Unabridged MP3 download
'The poems are often the fruit of their big gestures, their brimming hearts and earthquake heartbreaks' - Michael Schmidt
INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING POEMS
Emily Brontë
A.E. and R.C.
Death
A Death Scene
Fall, Leaves, Fall
Hope
I am the only being whose doom
If grief for grief can touch thee
Love is like the wild rose briar
The night is darkening round me
No coward soul is mine
The Old Stoic
The Prisoner
Remembrance
Song: The linnet in the rocky dells
Song to A.A.
Charlotte Brontë
The Autumn day its course has run
Life
On the Death of Anne Brontë
On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë
Parting
Anne Brontë
Appeal
In Memory of a Happy Day in February
Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day
Lines Written at Thorp Green
To Cowper
Patrick Branwell Brontë
Augusta
Death Triumphant
Epistle From a Father to a Child in Her Grave
Lines
The man who will not know another
Memory
Now - but one moment, let me stay
O God! while I in pleasure's wiles
O Thou, whose beams were most withdrawn
Oh, all our cares
On Caroline
Peaceful Death and Painful Life
Penmaenmawr
Thorp Green
To Sestius
BONUS MATERIAL
Elizabeth Gaskell on Charlotte Brontë
(an extract from Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell, read by Barnaby Edwards))
Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë and Patrick Branwell Brontë
(four musical interludes by Howard Carter)
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