The Great Poets William Blake (Naxos Great Poets)

"great poems!" according to Ciracha9. Well read; great poems!

Naxos AudioBooks begins its new series of Great Poets represented by their most popular poems on one CD with William Blake, whose 250th anniversary of birth falls this year. They are strikingly read by Robert Glenister, Michael Maloney and Stephen Critchlow.. This CD contains all of his most popular works Tyger, the Auguries of Innocence, Jerusalem, as well as some lesser-known poetry that demonstrates the range and power of his verse

D.B. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine . The use of three narrators in this audio anthology is a wise editorial decision, as it allows the poems to benefit from a broader range of voices. From AudioFile Blake's poetry presents a series of challenges for those reading it aloud because it ranges from the exuberant to the frightening. For example, both versions of "The Chimney Sweeper" from SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE are narrated by the same boy, but with starkly different emotions. In other selections, the power of Blake's apocalyptic verse is dramatic, almost chilling. The poems are placed back-to-back here; one reader uses childlike dialogue, while the other switches to a darker tone to convey the despair of the second poem