The Best Poetry Album in the World…Ever!

1.

Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare , Hugh Grant

01:02

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2.

The Flea John Donne , Dale Winton

01:24

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To Celia Ben Jonson , Patricia Hodge

00:54

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4.

Paradise Lost (excerpt) Julian Glover , John Milton

03:15

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5.

The Tyger Julian Glover , William Blake

01:16

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Daffodils Jeremy Irons , William Wordsworth

01:01

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Kubla Khan Dale Winton , Samuel Taylor Coleridge

02:20

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8.

She Walks in Beauty George Gordon Byron , Greg Wise

01:04

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To Autumn John Keats , Neil Conrich

01:52

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10.

Past and Present Thomas Hood , Paula Wilcox

01:30

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11.

How Do I Love Thee? Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Isla Blair

01:04

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12.

Ulysees (excerpt) Lord Alfred Tennyson , Crispin Bonham-Carter

00:56

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13.

Home-Thoughts, From Abroad Robert Browning , Jamie Glover

01:11

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14.

Remembrance Emily Brontë , Patricia Hodge

02:17

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15.

The Owl and the Pussycat Leslie Phillips , Edward Lear

01:45

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16.

Longing Timothy Dalton , Matthew Arnold

00:58

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17.

A Birthday Imelda Staunton , Christina Rossetti

00:55

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18.

If Richard Briers , Rudyard Kipling

01:40

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19.

The Ballad of Reading Gaol (excerpt) Oscar Wilde , Joss Ackland

02:39

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20.

Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven William Butler Yeats , Greg Wise

00:36

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21.

The Listeners Walter de la Mare , Alex Jennings

02:02

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22.

The Highwayman Alfred Noyes , Joss Ackland

06:09

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23.

Glory of Women Siegfried Sassoon , Samuel West

00:56

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24.

The Soldier Rupert Brooke , Samuel West

01:16

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25.

Dulce et decorum est Wilfred Owen , Brian Blessed

01:56

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26.

Not to Sleep Robert Graves , Julian Glover

01:09

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27.

Not Waving but Drowning Paula Wilcox , Stevie Smith

00:55

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28.

Walking Away Isla Blair , Cecil Day‐Lewis

01:22

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29.

How to Get on in Society Sir John Betjeman , Crispin Bonham-Carter

00:57

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30.

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Dylan Thomas , Brian Blessed

01:21

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31.

Hawk Roosting Ted Hughes , Neil Conrich

01:19

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32.

Wedding Day Seamus Heaney , Alex Jennings

00:49

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