British Literature Survey
Poetry Recordings

“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever . . ." (1.1)
John Keats's Endymion (Apr.--Nov. 1817; 1818)


William Blake "The Chimney Sweeper" (1789) "Holy Thursday" (ca. 1784; 1789) "The Chimney Sweeper" (1790-92) "Holy Thursday" (1794) "The Tyer" (1790-92; 1794)  
William Wordsworth "Simon Lee" (1798; 1798) "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" (July 1798; 1798) "We Are Seven" (1798; 1798) "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" (1799; 1800 "London, 1802" (Sept. 1802; 1807) "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" (1802-04; 1807)"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" (1797; 1800) "Frost at Midnight" (Feeb 1798; 1798) "Dejection: An Ode" (Apr. 4, 1802; 1802) "Kubla Khan" (ca. 1797-98; 1816)    
George Gordon Lord Byron "She Walks in Beauty" (June 1814; 1815)          
John Keats "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles for the First Time" (1817) "Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art" (1819) "Ode to a Nightingale" (May 1819; 1819) "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1819; 1820) "La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad" (Apr. 1819; 1820) "To Autumn" (1819)
Percy Bysshe Shelley "Mutability" (1816) "Ode to the West Wind" (1819; 1820)        
Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach" (ca.1851; 1867) “The Buried Life” (1852) "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" (c.1852; 1855) "Isolation" (1857)    
Alfred Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott" (1831-32; 1832 & 1842) "Ulysses" (1833; 1842) "In Memoriam," excerpt (1850) "Tithonus" (1860)    
Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Insufficiency" (1844) Sonnets from the Portugese (1845-47; 1850): 13, 14, 28 "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" (1849) "A Musical Instrument" (1860; 1860) "Mother and Poet" (1862)  
Robert Browning "Porphyria's Lover" (c.1835; 1836, 1842) "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" (ca. 1839, 1842) "My Last Duchess" (1842; 1842) "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church" (1845) "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" (1852; 1855) "Abt Vogler" (1864)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel" (1846; 1850)          
Christina Rossetti "In an Artist's Studio" (1856) “Winter: My Secret” (1857; 1862) Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” (1859; 1862), Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets (1881)    
William Morris "The Defence of Guenevere" (1858) “The Tune of Seven Towers” (1858)        
Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Leper" (1866) "The Triumph of Time" (1866) "Hymn to Proserpine" (1866)      
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1) "God's Grandeur" (1877; 1918) "As Kingfishers Catch Fire" (1877; 1918) "Hurrahing in Harvest" (1877; 1918) "Pied Beauty" (1877; 1918)    
Gerard Manley Hopkins (2) "[Carrion Comfort]" (1885; 1918) "No worst, there is none" (1885; 1918) "Thou art indeed just, Lord" (1889; 1918) "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire . . ." (1888; 1918)    
Oscar Wilde "The Withered Arm" (1888) "The Harlot's House" (1885)        
Thomas Hardy "Hap" (1898) "The Darkling Thrush" (Dec 31, 1900) "The Convergence of the Twain" (1912; 1912) "Channel Firing" (April 1914; 1914 "In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'" (1915; 1916)  
William Butler Yeats (1890s) "When You Are Old" (1891; 1892, 1899) "The Rose of the World" (1892, 1895) "To Ireland In the Coming Times" (1893) "Cap and Bells" (1899)    
William Butler Yeats (1900s) "Adam's Curse" (Nov. 1902; 1902, 1903)          
William Butler Yeats (1910s) The Fascination of What's Difficult" (1910; 1910) "September 1913" (1913; 1913) “Easter 1916” (1916; 1916) "The Wild Swans at Coole" (1916; 1917) “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” (1919)  
William Butler Yeats (1920s) "The Second Coming" (1919; 1920) "A Prayer for My Daughter" (Feb.-June 1919; 1919, 1921) “Meditations in Time of Civil War” (1921; 1928) “Leda and the Swan” (1923; 1924) “Sailing to Byzantium” (1926; 1927, 1928) “The Circus Animals’ Desertion” (unknown; 1939)
Siegfried Sassoon "Glory of Women" (1917; 1918) "They" (1919) "Everyone Sang" (April 1919)      
T. S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1910-11; 1915, 1917) "The Wasteland," Part 3 (1922) "Hollow Men" (1924-25)      
Langston Hughes "I Too Sing America" (1922)          
Dylan Thomas "The Force That . . ." (1933) "Fern Hill" (1937)        
W. H. Auden "Musée des Beaux Arts" (1938)          
Dylan Thomas "The Force That . . ." (1933) "Fern Hill" (1937)        
Melvin B. Tolson "An Ex Judge at the Bar" (1944)          


Dr. Paul Marchbanks
pmarchba@calpoly.edu