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The Great Poets
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
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Summary
A collection of the best-known poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). One of the Victorian era's greatest writers, Hopkins' reputation has continued to grow since his death.
Our Great Poets series, launched in 2007, has proven very popular, offering many of the best-loved poems by popular poets, well read by leading actors. This collection includes "The Windhover", "The Caged Skylark", "Carrion Comfort", "Spring", and "Fall and Inversnaid".
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A graduate of the Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol, England, Jeremy Northam has played many roles, including that of Saint Thomas More in Showtime's The Tudors. The son of two professors, he is perfectly cast to read a poet whose best-loved works include "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and the comfort of the Resurrection." Difficult lines come trippingly off his tongue. This, for instance from "Windhover": "daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon . . ." There are 38 poems, each beautifully wrought.
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- Richard Boyle
- 17-06-23
Beauty beauty never vanishing
Enthralling consoling dive into a wonderful and ethereal spirituality that spirits the normal to the immortal. Beautiful.
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- Fothergill
- 31-01-21
Blissful Hopkins, nothing left to be said .
So beautifully read by Jeremy Northam, one feels his love for this wonderful poet, such a luxury to be able to listen to something as good, whilst doing mundane stuff.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-09-21
Excellent
A wonderful reading of most of Hopkins' finest poems, to be enjoyed many times.
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