Read by Vincent Price
Caedmon CPN 1059 & TC 1059
ÔI have sought to enlist the
harmony of metrical language, the ethereal combinations of the fancy, the rapid
and subtle transitions of human passion, all those elements which essentially
compose a Poem, in the cause of a liberal and comprehensive moralityÕ - Shelley
CONTENTS
Music, When Soft Voices Die
With A Guitar, To Jane
Ozymandias ***LISTEN***
Prometheus Unbound: My Soul is an
Enchanted Boat
To a Skylark
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Ode to the West Wind
Adonais
TOTAL TIME: 60min
Percy Bysshe Shelley was perhaps the
best of that handful of staggeringly bright and talented poets born of the
Romantic era. Like his friends and peers Byron and Keats, Shelley died while
still a young man but wrote prolifically and with a skill and understanding of
human nature well beyond his years. As read here by the incomparable Vincent
Price, this selection represents Shelley at his passionate and imaginative
best, and defines the very essence of the Romantic movement in poetry.
CREDITS
Directed by Howard O Sackler
Cover: Bird by Morris Graves, 1950
Wilmington Society of Fine Arts
Cover design; Matthew Leibowitz
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