‘One of the best anthologies of the year… An arresting, deeply moving collection of the best of British poetry read by a star-studded cast.’ The Independent This exceptional anthology, based on Lord Owen’s published anthology Seven Ages – Poetry for a Lifetime, features many of Britain’s leading actors who have all given their services for charity. Shakespeare’s ‘seven ages’ speech (read by Sir Ian McKellen) punctuates the programme which contains over four hundred poems read by forty actors. Michael Caine reads Kipling’s ‘If’; Ralph Fiennes reads Hood’s ‘I Remember, I Remember’; John Cleese reads ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’; Pete Postlethwaite reads ‘Kubla Khan’.
2 CDs | Running Time: 2h 33m | ISBN: 978-962-634-189-6 | Cat. no.: NA218912 | RRP: £10.99RRP:£10.99 GBPSRP: US $ 17.98RRP:£10.99 GBP
INCLUDED IN Seven Ages
| William Shakespeare | Seven Ages – from As You Like It |
| Thom Gunn | Baby Song |
| Anne Stevenson | The Victory |
| Emily Dickinson | Surgeons |
| William Shakespeare | Fancy – from The Merchant of Venice |
| Ogden Nash | The Guppy |
| Edward Lear | The Quangle Wangle’s Hat |
| Thomas Hood | I Remember, I Remember |
| William Allingham | The Fairies |
| Thomas Hood | A Parental Ode |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | My Shadow |
| Edward Lear | The Owl and The Pussy Cat |
| A. A. Milne | Sneezles |
| Lewis Carroll | The Walrus and The Carpenter |
| Ted Hughes | Jellyfish |
| G. K. Chesterton | The Donkey |
| Anonymous | The Common Cormorant |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Where Go The Boats |
| Ted Hughes | Crab |
| A. A. Milne | The End |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | To Any Reader |
| Dylan Thomas | Under Milk Wood |
| Vernon Watkins | The Collier |
| Shel Silverstein | Sick |
| John Whitworth | Boring |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | from The Barefoot Boy |
| William Shakespeare | Full Fathom Five from The Tempest |
| Oscar Wilde | Rosa Mystica |
| Rudyard Kipling | A Smuggler’s Song |
| C. Day Lewis | Walking Away |
| Hilaire Belloc | Tarantella |
| T. S. Eliot | Macavity |
| Rudyard Kipling | If |
| William Shakespeare | This Above All |
| W. B. Yeats | The Arrow |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Arrow and The Song |
| Rabindranath Tagore | They Who Are Near To Me |
| Christina Rossetti | The First Day |
| Thomas Lowell Beddoes | The Song of Torrismond |
| Robert Bridges | My Delight and Thy Delight |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Sonnet 43 |
| Rudyard Kipling | The Virginity |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Longest Journey |
| Anonymous | We Have Known Treasure |
| William Shakespeare | Sonnet 138 |
| Christina Rossetti | Echo |
| Rabindranath Tagore | Delusions I Did Cherish |
| William Shakespeare | Sonnet 18 |
| A. E. Housman | When I Was One-And-Twenty |
| W. B. Yeats | The Mermaid |
| Robert Herrick | Upon the Nipples of Julia’s Breast |
| Robert Burns | My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose |
| William Shakespeare | Sonnet 116 |
| D. H. Lawrence | New Year’s Eve |
| D. H. Lawrence | Green |
| John Keats | A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever |
| William Shakespeare | Prologue from King Henry V |
| Julian Grenfell | Into Battle |
| W. B. Yeats | An Irish Airman Foresees His Death |
| James Russell Lowell | Once to Every Man and Nation |
| Seamus Heaney | Whatever You Say, Say Nothing |
| John McCrea | In Flanders Fields |
| Vera Brittain | Perhaps |
| Wilfred Owen | Anthem for Doomed Youth |
| Wilfred Owen | Dulce et Decorum Est |
| Eva Dobell | Pluck |
| W. H. Auden | from In Memory of W. B. Yeats |
| John Jarmain | At a War Grave |
| John Jarmain | El Alamein |
| Ruth Fainlight | Handbag |
| Elsie Cawser | Salvage Song |
| Rudyard Kipling | England |
| Matthew Arnold | Dover Beach |
| Dan Pagis | Written with a Pencil in a Sealed Wagon |
| John Donne | No Man Is An Island |
| John Boyle O’Reilly | What is Good |
| Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass |
| Anonymous | Addendum to the Ten Commandments |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | A Student |
| James Leigh Hunt | Abou Ben Adhem |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | from The Song of Hiawatha |
| William Wordsworth | My Heart Leaps Up |
| William Blake | Auguries of Innocence |
| William Blake | The Tyger |
| Emily Dickinson | Of All The Souls That Stand Create |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | Chorus of Spirits |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Kubla Khan |
| Robert Burns | A Man’s a Man for A’ That |
| Robert Frost | The Road Not Taken |
| Anonymous | The Bleed‘n’ Sparrer |
| W. B. Yeats | Politics |
| Ogden Nash | Peekaboo, I Almost See You |
| Ogden Nash | Samson Agonistes |
| John Masefield | Sea Fever |
| Emily Dickinson | The Exultation |
| Morris Bishop | We Have Been Here Before |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | from The Brook |
| William Wordsworth | Upon Westminster Bridge |
| John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester | A Song of a Young Lady To Her Ancient Lover |
| Robert Burns | John Anderson, My Jo |
| Stanley J. Sharples | In Praise of Cocoa, Cupid’s Nightcap |
| Rudyard Kipling | The Way Through the Woods |
| Christina Rossetti | from Uphill |
| Dylan Thomas | Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night |
| Christina Rossetti | Song |
| Leo Marks | Code Poem for the French Resistance |
| Emily Dickinson | This World is not Conclusion |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Requiem |
| Christina Rossetti | Sleeping at Last |
| William Shakespeare | Fear No More from Cymbeline |
| John Banister Tabb | Evolution |
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