Alec Guiness - The Gift Of Poetry - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Over 78 mins of sustained quality favorites, well-remastered vintage classic tracks chosen by experts, legendary voices. Album Tracks 1. W. H. Auden The Night Mail (John Laurie) 2. Laurie Lee April (Laurie Lee) 3. Oscar Wilde Ballad of Reading Gaol (Frank Duncan) 4. Robert Burns Red, Red Rose (John Neville) 5. Alec Guinness Reading (*With Osian Ellis, Harp) E. E. Cummings Sweet Spring 6. E. E. Cummings When Faces Called Flowers 7. E. E. Cummings The Moon Looked Into My Window 8. Thomas H. Bayly Ask Me Not for Sportive Lays* 9. Cornelius Whur The Female Friend* 10. Thomas H. Bayly Toujours Le Meme* 11. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Exelsior* 12. Richard Burton Reading Thomas Hardy Wessex Heights 13. Thomas Hardy The Voice 14. John Clare Autumn 15. Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd 16. Walter Raleigh Nymph's Reply 17. Bishop Henry King From Exequy on His Wife 18. William Dunbar From Lament of the Makers 19. Robert Graves Welsh Incident 20. John Betjeman Reading Betjeman The Church's Restoration 21. Olympic Girl 22. Seaside Golf 23. Business Women 24. Indoor Games Near Newbury 25. How to Get on in Society 26. Licorice Fields at Pontefract 27. Robert Donat Reading A. E. Housman From Far from Eve and Morning 28. John Betjeman Death at Leamington 29. Coventry Patmore The Toys 30. T. S. Eliot Gus, the Theatre Cat 31. Yuan Jie Drunk Song on Stone Fish Lake 32. Robert Browning Ring and the Book (Extract) 33. WM Shakespeare On Her Reign (From Henry VIII) 34. Shakespeare 'Dirge for Fidele' from Cymbeline (Fear No More the Heat of the Sun...) 35. William Wordsworth Intimations of Immortality 36. John Donne A Devotion (No Man Is An Island) (Orson Welles) 37. Langston Hughes Freedom Train (Paul Robeson) 38. Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address (Orson Welles)