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Selected Poems

Gelesen von Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

(4 Sterne; 2 Bewertungen)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) and his sister Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) played important roles in the artistic milieu of Victorian England. Members of a highly cultured Italian immigrant family, they achieved widespread fame and exerted a significant influence upon the poetry and art of their time.

Dante Gabriel was a co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of painters, contributing to a renewed interest in medieval themes and techniques. Both his painting and his poetry anticipated the Aesthetic movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His deep intellect and highly emotional nature are reflected in poems that exhibit a combination of complex symbolism and powerful feeling. He was a master of the sonnet form, as best exemplified in his book The House of Life.

Christina served as a model for some of her brother’s early paintings, and she was closely identified with the Pre-Raphaelites. Her poetry is more accessible and displays perhaps a greater felicity of expression than her brother’s. Today she holds a higher reputation, often being ranked (sometimes rather condescendingly) among the leading women poets. Other critics, quite appropriately, consider her a major poet without the feminine label. A deeply devout person, she never married, although she eventually rejected two suitors, both for religious reasons. She produced a large body of Christian poetry, which is not represented in this collection. She also wrote many delightful poems for children. (Summary by Leonard Wilson) (1 hr 48 min)

Chapters

Silent Noon

1:45

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

A Birthday

1:22

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

A Little While

1:48

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Remember

1:23

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

My Sister's Sleep

3:55

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Maude Claire

2:44

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Sudden Light

1:23

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Dream Land

1:56

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Soul's Beauty

1:37

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Body's Beauty

1:38

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Goblin Market

23:13

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Autumn Song

1:25

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Song

1:16

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

The Choice I, II & III

4:02

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

After Death

1:41

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

The Love Letter

1:34

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

No, Thank You, John

2:13

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

The Hill Summit

1:33

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Love From the North

2:26

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

The Blessed Damozel

7:43

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

At Home

2:29

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A Day of Love

1:34

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Last Night

2:50

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Insomnia

1:56

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

In the Round Tower at Jhansi

1:57

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Mary's Girlhood (For a Picture)

1:42

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Somewhere or Other

1:23

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

The Ballad of Dead Ladies

2:18

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Helen Grey

1:53

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Lost Days

1:39

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An End

1:33

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Sister Helen

14:21

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Uphill

1:36

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

The One Hope

1:34

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Children's Poems, from Sing-Song

3:06

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Bewertungen

format spoiled readings

(3 Sterne)

A good reader but this collection was spoilt by the constant and unnecessary reiteration of the credits at every opportunity, given that the sections are very short,it spoiled the flow of the readings and was extremely distracting and annoying.