The Poetry of Coleridge - 3 - Burton&Lynch

Richard Burton reads Frost at Midnight and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (with John Neville and Robert Hardy)

This is an unusually powerful and dramatic performance - we are all familiar with Burton's barrel-chested Welsh baritone but here you will find a voice capable of unusually sensitive inflections. In the 1950's and 60's Richard Burton bestrode the London stage like a greek god....a pity Liz and the booze got him (sound is first-rate given the age)

The Irish actor Finbar Lynch recorded the Mariner for the bbc in 2009. At the time I downloaded it as an mp3 file but this no longer seems to be available so I am uploading it here. A quite recommendable version.

Some have enquired about the Penguin Audiobook Coleridge.This is already available on demonoid. Go to - http://www.demonoid.me/files/details/2491230/4732427/ (mrbassie). Note that Highbridge Audio has the rights for North America. This can be taken as a model introduction to Coleridge and the reading of The Ancient Mariner is one of the best available.

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The Poetry of Coleridge - 2 - Richardson&Peacock
T.S.Eliot - Murder in the Cathedral - Argo
Eliot - Four Quartets et alia - AlecGuinness
Eliot - Four Quartets et alia - T.S.Eliot
Eliot - Four Quartets et alia - Speaight
T.S.Eliot - The Wasteland 1-4
The Poetry of Auden 1-3
The Poetry of Shelley 1-7