Your cart is empty now.
Read by Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 46mins)
Featuring poems by William Blake, William Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Keats, John Clare & others.
Over many centuries poets have drawn inspiration and solace from the land that surrounds us. From mountain high to valley floor from sea cliffs to sandy shore through wood and field, across rivers, brooks and streams through sunlight, raging storms and the cloak of night these shores have some of the most beautiful natural treasures to be found anywhere.
Our poets including William Wordsworth, Robert Bridges and A E Houseman to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Radclyffe Hall and Emily Bronte with mere words help convey the splendour of this British Landscape in fifty classic poems.
In this compilation -
1 - Fifty Shades of the British Countryside - An Introduction |
2 - On a Lane in Spring by John Clare |
3 - It Was An April Morning Fresh and Clear by William Wordsworth |
4 - The Lambs of Grassmere by Christina Georgina Rossetti |
5 - Memorials of a Tour in Scotland August 1803 by William Wordsworth |
6 - High Waving Heather 'Neath Stormy Blasts Bending by Emily Jane Bronte |
7 - Hop Picking by Edith Nesbit |
8 - I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud by William Wordsworth |
9 - Summer by Alexander Pope |
10 - Binsey Poplars by Gerard Manley Hopkins |
11 - Loveliest of Trees, The Cherry Now by A E Housman |
12 - The Oak by Alfred Lord Tennyson |
13 - The Chestnut by Robert Laurence Binyon |
14 - Wood Rides by John Clare |
15 - In Sutton Woods by Alfred Austin |
16 - There Is a Pleasure in the Pathless Woods by Lord Byron |
17 - Dirge in Woods by George Meredith |
18 - The Hill Pines Were Sighing by Robert Seymour Bridges |
19 - There is a Hill by Robert Seymour Bridges |
20 - Grongar Hill by John Dyer |
21 - The Malvern Hills by Radclyffe Hall |
22 - Sonnet XLIII. The Malvern Hills, March 12th 1835 by Henry Alford |
23 - The Downs by Robert Seymour Bridges |
24 - In March by Archibald Lampman |
25 - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy |
26 - Autumn in Sussex by Radclyffe Hall |
27 - Autumn in Cornwall by Algernon Charles Swinburne |
28 - October by George Arnold |
29 - Autumn Dawn by Charles Sorley |
30 - To a Robin in November by William Wilfred Campbell |
31 - Autumn - A Dirge by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
32 - November by John Clare |
33 - By Severn by Ivor Gurney |
34 - The Waterfall by Henry Vaughan |
35 - Penmaien Pool by Gerard Manley Hopkins |
36 - Beachey Head by Charlotte Smith |
37 - Sonnet At Dover Cliffs July 20th 1787 by William Lisle Bowles |
38 - Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold |
39 - Floating Island by Dorothy Wordsworth |
40 - On the Sea by John Keats |
41 - Llyn Y Gadair by T H Parry-Williams |
42 - Penmaenmawr by Patrick Branwell Bronte |
43 - from Chepstow - A Poem - Tinturn Abbey by Edward Davies |
44 - Glastonbury by Michael Drayton from Poly-Olbion |
45 - The Rolling English Road by G K Chesterton |
46 - Adlestrop by Edward Thomas |
47 - Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray |
48 - The Old Vicarage of Grantchester by Rupert Brooke |
49 - In Springtime by Rudyard Kipling |
50 - Home Thoughts From Abroad by Robert Browning |
51 - Jerusalem by William Blake |