Thomas Hardy - Selected Poems
Thomas Hardy - Selected Poems
Unabridged readings of 27 classic poems by Thomas Hardy. Read by Martin Jarvis, directed by Rosalind Ayres and produced by Barnaby Edwards, the poems are enhanced by scene-setting musical introductions from composer Howard Carter
Duration: 71 minutes
Released: 20 June 2011
Format: Unabridged MP3 download
'I yield to none in my admiration of Hardy' - Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled
INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING POEMS
Afterwards
At an Inn
At Castle Boterel
Beeny Cliff
Cannel Firing
A Christmas Ghost Story
The Colonel's Soliloquy (Southampton Docks: October, 1899)
The Convergence of the Twain
The Darkling Thrush
The Dead Man Walking
Drummer Hodge
Embarcation (Southampton Docks: October, 1899)
The Going
The Haunter
The House of Hospitalities
In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'
The Man He Killed
Men Who March Away
Neutral Tones
Overlooking the River Stour
The Oxen
The Phantom Horsewoman
The Self-Unseeing
Under the Waterfall
The Voice
A Wife in London
Your Last Drive
BONUS MATERIAL
G.K. Chesterton of Thomas Hardy
(an extract from G.K. Chesterton's Autobiography, read by Barnaby Edwards))
Thomas Hardy's 'Apology'
(Hardy's complete essay from Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922), read by Barnaby Edwards)
The Song of the Darkling Thrush
(a music suite by Howard Carter)
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