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Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age

Read by John Moffatt, Samuel West & Sarah Woodward

unabridged

Here are some of the finest narrative poems in the English language, dating from an age of rich inspiration: the nineteenth century. All tell powerful stories of human passion and endeavour, often reflected in vivid evocations of the medieval world. Includes ‘The Eve of St Agnes’ Le Morte d’Arthur and ‘Peter Grimes’

Running Time: 2 h 16 m

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Digital ISBN:	978-962-954-637-3
Cat. no.:	NA209212
Download size:	33 MB
BISAC:	POE001000
Released:	March 2000

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John Moffatt

John Moffat’s distinguished theatre career encompasses two hundred roles across the UK, forty-two major London productions and two Broadway appearances. He played Malvolio in Twelfth Night at the Open Air Theatre, Regents Park, appeared in Ingmar Bergman’s production of Hedda Gabler and in Married Love directed by Joan Plowright. Film credits include Prick Up Your Ears, and he has been seen on UK TV in productions as varied as Love in a Cold Climate and Maigret. He also reads Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and The Faerie Queene for Naxos AudioBooks and appears as Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Titles read by John Moffatt

Titles read by John Moffatt: 1,000 Years of Laughter (unabridged); The Canterbury Tales II (unabridged); The Christmas Collection (unabridged); Classic Comic Verse (selections); The Great Poets – Samuel Taylor Coleridge (selections); Selections from The Faerie Queene (abridged); Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age (unabridged); Krapp’s Last Tape (unabridged); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (unabridged); Oedipus (unabridged); Tristram Shandy (abridged)

Samuel West

Samuel West has played Hamlet and Richard II for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Jeffrey Skilling in Enron in the West End and the voice of Pongo in Disney’s 101 Dalmations II. His television credits include W1A (BBC), Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (BBC), Cambridge Spies (BBC) and four series of Mr Selfridge (ITV). He also narrated The Nazis: A Warning from History (BBC). His films include Darkest Hour, On Chesil Beach, Suffragette, Van Helsing and Notting Hill. He was nominated for a BAFTA for Howards End. As a reciter, West was soloist in Walton’s Henry V at the 2002 Last Night of the Proms. Sam has recorded over seventy audiobooks, receiving nine AudioFile Earphones Awards for his narration. He is an Associate Artist of the RSC, a trustee of Belarus Free Theatre and Chair of the National Campaign for the Arts.

Titles read by Samuel West

Titles read by Samuel West: Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady, Volume 1 (unabridged); Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady, Volume 2 (unabridged); Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady, Volume 3 (unabridged); Faust (abridged); Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age (unabridged); Great Speeches in History (compilation); Henry V (unabridged); The Great Poets – John Keats (selections); Lady Windermere’s Fan (unabridged); Peter Pan (abridged); Realms of Gold (unabridged); A Shropshire Lad (unabridged)

Sarah Woodward

Sarah Woodward joined the Royal Shakespeare Company after leaving RADA and has since appeared in many Shakespearean roles including Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. Other theatre credits include The Sea, Kean, and Wild Oats.

Titles read by Sarah Woodward

Titles read by Sarah Woodward: The Great Poets – Samuel Taylor Coleridge (selections); Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age (unabridged); Great Speeches & Soliloquies of Shakespeare (selections); The Great Poets – John Keats (selections); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (unabridged)

Included in this title

John Keats: The Eve of St Agnes
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Morte d’Arthur
William Wordsworth: Michael
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Christabel
William Morris: The Haystack in the Floods
George Crabbe: Peter Grimes

Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age

Read by John Moffatt, Samuel West & Sarah Woodward

unabridged

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