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William Wordsworth: The Prelude (unabridged)

read by Nicholas Farrell

William Wordsworth: The Prelude (unabridged)

William Wordsworth: The Prelude (unabridged)

read by Nicholas Farrell

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  • Release date: 4th Jun 2013
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Series: Poetry
  • Catalogue number: NA0134
  • Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Wordsworth: The Prelude (Unabridged)
Work length6:51:54
The Prelude, Book First
Track length7:06
And now it would content me to yield up…
Track length7:06
Was it for this, that one, the fairest of all rivers…
Track length7:02
Wisdom and Spirit of the universe!
Track length7:05
Meanwhile abroad incessant rain was falling…
Track length5:47
Book Second
Track length6:04
Our steeds remounted and the summons given…
Track length6:02
Hard task, vain hope, to analyse the mind…
Track length6:26
'Twere long to tell…
Track length6:16
Book Third
Track length5:56
As if awakened, summoned, roused, constrained…
Track length5:53
Could I behold…
Track length5:39
In this mixed sort…
Track length5:25
This truth escaped me not…
Track length5:04
And sure it is…
Track length6:12
Book Fourth
Track length6:00
And when at evening on the public way…
Track length6:12
But now there opened on me other thoughts…
Track length6:04
When from our better selves…
Track length6:10
Book Fifth
Track length6:11
Far stronger, now, grew the desire I felt…
Track length6:22
We had been followed, hourly watched…
Track length5:44
These mighty workmen of our later age…
Track length5:59
A precious treasure had I long possessed…
Track length7:46
Book Sixth
Track length5:06
On the vague reading of a truant youth…
Track length5:44
The varied banks of Emont…
Track length6:22
When the third summer freed us from restraint…
Track length5:57
She ceased to speak…
Track length6:13
Dejection taken up for pleasure's sake…
Track length6:21
While yet a youth undisciplined in verse…
Track length5:51
Book Seventh
Track length6:33
Nor had Fancy fed with less delight…
Track length6:53
And to these exhibitions, mute and still…
Track length6:43
Distress of mind ensued upon the sight…
Track length6:49
But some - while he forewarns…
Track length6:42
Though reared upon the base of outward things…
Track length6:26
Book Eighth
Track length5:49
Yea, when a glimpse of those imperial bowers…
Track length6:07
And when the spring looks out…
Track length5:38
Yet deem not, Friend! that human kind…
Track length6:04
A grove there is…
Track length6:12
But let him pause awhile, and look again…
Track length5:41
Book Ninth
Track length6:20
A band of military Officers…
Track length5:39
It could not be but that one tutored thus…
Track length6:20
We summoned up the honourable deeds…
Track length5:15
And sometimes, when to a convent in a meadow green…
Track length6:12
Book Tenth
Track length7:28
Yet did I grieve…
Track length7:37
Oh! much have they to account for…
Track length7:54
But, even if that were not…
Track length7:37
Book Eleventh
Track length6:23
They who had fed their childhood upon dreams…
Track length6:09
Thus expectation rose again…
Track length6:37
Thus, O Friend! through times of honour…
Track length5:26
Book Twelfth
Track length6:16
Nor only did the love of sitting thus…
Track length5:09
Such moments are scattered everywhere…
Track length5:50
Book Thirteenth
Track length6:17
Oh! next to one dear state of bliss…
Track length6:37
Be mine to follow with no timid step…
Track length6:34
Book Fourteenth
Track length5:10
Them the enduring and the transient…
Track length6:13
But joy to him…
Track length6:35
Yet one word more of personal concern…
Track length5:34
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