'My Last Duchess', 'How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix', 'Childe Rolande to the Dark Tower Came', 'Prospice', 'Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister', 'Home - Thoughts from Abroad', 'The Lost Leader', 'Porphyria's Lover', 'Memorabilia', 'Rabbi Ben Ezra', 'The Year at the Spring', 'The Bishop Orders His Tomb', 'Andrea del Sarto', 'Fra Lippo Lippi, - all read by James Mason.
Robert Browning was perhaps the most prolific and versatile English poet of the 19th century, and this recording offers a generous selection from Browning's work, ranging in style form the shorter lyrical poems to the vivid characteristics and perceptive insights of the dramatic monologues, three of which are included here in their entirety. Available for the first time as a digital download.
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"Robert Browning is probably my favourite poet. His poems are dramatic, intense, and so readable and intriguing, with absolutely wonderful, memorable characters and plots. Highlights are definitely My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover. Nobody has ever done the dramatic monologue like Browning.
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Scarlettfish (5 out of 5 stars)