Seven Ages: An Anthology of Poetry with Music
By William Shakespeare , Walt Whitman , and many others
Read by Dame Judi Dench , Sir Ian McKellen , and other various narrators
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ISBN: 9789629546441
This highly entertaining anthology of verse is the comic, tender, and telling story of life’s seven ages, from childhood to old age. Based on Lord Owen’s published anthology Seven Ages—Poetry for a Lifetime, it features many of Britain’s leading actors. Shakespeare’s “seven ages” speech, read by Sir Ian McKellen, punctuates the program which contains more than one hundred poems read by forty actors. Highlights include Michael Caine reading Kipling’s “If,” Ralph Fiennes reading Hood’s “I Remember, I Remember,” John Cleese reading “The Owl and the Pussycat,” and Pete Postlethwaite reading “Kubla Khan.”
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Summary
Summary
This highly entertaining anthology of verse is the comic, tender, and telling story of life’s seven ages, from childhood to old age. Based on Lord Owen’s published anthology Seven Ages—Poetry for a Lifetime, it features many of Britain’s leading actors. Shakespeare’s “seven ages” speech, read by Sir Ian McKellen, punctuates the program which contains more than one hundred poems read by forty actors. Highlights include Michael Caine reading Kipling’s “If,” Ralph Fiennes reading Hood’s “I Remember, I Remember,” John Cleese reading “The Owl and the Pussycat,” and Pete Postlethwaite reading “Kubla Khan.”
Author
Author Bio: William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), English poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean period, is the most widely known author in all of English literature and often considered the greatest. He was an active member of a theater company for at least twenty years, during which time he wrote many great plays. Plays were not prized as literature at the time, and Shakespeare was not widely read until the middle of the eighteenth century, when a great upsurge of interest in his works began that continues today.
Author Bio: Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was the son of a carpenter. His formal schooling ended at age eleven, when he was apprenticed to a printer in Brooklyn. He spent the next two decades as a printer, freelance writer, and editor in New York. In 1855, at his own expense, he published the first edition of Leaves of Grass, which would mark him as the major poetic voice of an emerging America. Whitman would go on expanding and revising it for the rest of his life, with the final edition appearing in 1892, the year of his death.
Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Digital Download |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Poetry |
| Runtime: | 2.57 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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