Seven ages : an anthology of poetry with music
This recording, based on Lord Owen's published anthology "Seven ages: poetry for a lifetime," features many of Britain's leading actors. This anthology of verse is the comic, tragic, tender and telling story of life's seven ages-- from childhood to old age. Within the framework of Shakespeare's speech, The seven ages of man (performed by Sir Ian McKellen), are 150 great poems from all ages. Some of the poets included are William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes, Dylan Thomas, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, W.B. Yeats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, A.E. Housman, Robert Burns, D.H. Lawrence, John Keats, Seamus Heaney, Wilfred Owen, Matthew Arnold, John Donne, Walt Whitman, Rabindranath Tagore, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Ogden Nash, Christina Rossetti, and many others
Audiobook on CD, English, ℗1999
Naxos AudioBooks, [Redhill, Surrey], ℗1999