The Great Poets – William Blake

Read by Robert Glenister, Michael Maloney & Stephen Critchlow

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Naxos AudioBooks begins its new series of Great Poets – represented by their most popular poems on one CD – with William Blake, whose 250th anniversary of birth falls this year. This CD contains all of his most popular works – Tyger, the Auguries of Innocence, Jerusalem, as well as some lesser-known poetry that demonstrates the range and power of his verse. They are strikingly read by Robert Glenister, Michael Maloney and Stephen Critchlow.

Running Time: 1 h 02 m

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Digital ISBN:	978-962-954-645-8
Cat. no.:	NA147212
Download size:	15 MB
BISAC:	POE005020
Released:	July 2007

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Robert Glenister

Robert Glenister’s varied theatre credits include Measure for Measure, The Tempest and Little Eyolf for the Royal Shakespeare Company; The Duchess of Malfi, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead and Hamlet. His television credits include Heartbeat, Midsomer Murders, A Touch of Frost, Bramwell, Prime Suspect, Only Fools & Horses and Soldier Soldier.

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Titles read by Robert Glenister: The Great Poets – William Blake (selections); Classic Poems for Boys (unabridged); Hedda Gabler (unabridged); The Great Poets – Rudyard Kipling (selections); The Prophet, & The Wanderer (unabridged)

Michael Maloney

Michael Maloney’s many Shakespearean roles on the London stage include Edgar in King Lear, the title roles in Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, Prince Hal in Henry IV Parts 1 & 2; on film he has appeared in Branagh’s productions of Hamlet and Henry V, as well as in Parker’s Othello. Other notable films include Minghella’s Truly, Madly, Deeply. He frequently performs on radio and TV. He has been involved in other Naxos AudioBooks’ productions including King Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Poets of the Great War. He has also played the part of George Tesman in Hedda Gabler and read Selections from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, The Physician’s Tale from The Canterbury Tales III and The House on the Strand for Naxos AudioBooks.

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Stephen Critchlow

Stephen Critchlow is a popular and versatile actor who has enjoyed a wide variety of work, including Hamlet and Pygmalion in The West End, Cyrano De Bergerac at The Royal National Theatre and playing Kenneth Horne in Round The Horne Revisited on Tour. Television and film work includes Cider with Rosie, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Prince and The Pauper, Heartbeat, Monarch of The Glen, Fantabulosa, Trial and Retribution, The Calcium Kid and Churchill The Hollywood Years. He has been in over two hundred productions as a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company.

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Titles read by Stephen Critchlow: The Great Poets – William Blake (selections); Classic Ghost Stories (selections); Faust (abridged); Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (unabridged); Julius Caesar (unabridged); Life & Works – Franz Schubert (unabridged)

Included in this title

Auguries of Innocence
Introduction to Songs of Innocence
A Cradle Song
Introduction to Songs of Experience
A Dream
The Chimney Sweeper
The Chimney-Sweeper
The Divine Image
A Divine Image
from The Gates of Paradise, For The Sexes, Prologue
Infant Joy
Gnomic Verses
The Fly
Song
Holy Thursday
HolyThursday
Laughing Song
The Garden of Love
from An Island in the Moon
A Little Boy Found
A Little Boy Lost
The Little Girl Found
A Little Girl Lost
I Heard an Angel
The Human Abstract
Night
from Jerusalem
London
The Land of Dreams
Nurse’s Song
Love’s Secret
A Poison Tree
preface to Milton
The Little Vagabond
On Art and Artists
The Sick Rose
Ah, Sunflower
The Voice of the Ancient Bard
To The Muses
The Lamb
The Tiger
On Another’s Sorrow

William Blake