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