A Selection from the Sonnets of William Wordsworth


Leído por Bruce Kachuk

(1.8 stars; 2 reviews)

This is a very impressive collection of some of the best sonnets from the pen of the incomparable William Wordsworth. The appreciation that Wordsworth had for the beauty of his surroundings is vibrantly exhibited in these selections, as are his feelings on love, friendship, society, conflict, history, the supernatural and indeed the art of poetry itself. And what better vehicle for the elegant articulation of a master poet's thoughts and inspirations than the sonnet, an art form ideally suited to assertion, verbalization and contemplation.

In these sonnets, we witness Wordsworth's poetic expertise at its best in superb descriptions of nature's splendor which he astutely juxtaposes with his reflections on a world that is "too much with us," a world in which, "man for brother man has ceased to feel."

The sanctuary that Wordsworth found and which forms the basis for the inspiration displayed in many of these sonnets was the magnificent Lake District of England, which he depicted as, "At happy distance from Earth's groaning field, / Where ruthless mortals wage incessant wars." Such a sanctuary the poet would have wished for us all, and indeed provided the means for at least our vicarious enjoyment in the form of these enduring and timeless works of art.
- Summary by Bruce Kachuk (1 hr 56 min)

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Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room 1:20 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned 1:19 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Written in very Early Youth 1:20 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
I watch, and long have watched, with calm regret 1:26 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
How clear, how keen, how marvellously bright 1:22 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
While not a leaf seems faded; while the fields 1:20 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
There is a pleasure in poetic pains 1:17 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Oxford, May 30, 1820 1:19 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
A Parsonage in Oxfordshire 1:18 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Hail, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour! 1:20 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Mark the concentred hazels that enclose 1:22 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Composed at Rydal on May Morning, 1838 1:23 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Though the bold wings of Poesy affect 1:22 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Pelion and Ossa flourish side by side 1:17 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
To Sleep 1:25 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Fond words have oft been spoken to thee, Sleep! 1:23 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
The River Eden, Cumberland 1:16 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Surprised by joy - impatient as the Wind 1:23 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Her only pilot the soft breeze, the boat 1:19 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh 1:16 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go? 1:21 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Sole listener, Duddon! to the Breeze that played 1:17 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
What aspect bore the Man who roved or fled 1:20 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Hail to the fields - with dwellings sprinkled o'er 1:23 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
The Stepping-Stones 1:18 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Whence that low voice? - A whisper from the heart 1:22 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
I thought of Thee, my partner and my guide 1:22 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Brook! whose society the poet seeks 1:22 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Methinks that to some vacant hermitage 1:20 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
There is a little unpretending Rill 1:20 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Written upon a Blank Leaf in "The Complete Angler" 1:18 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Oh Friend! I know not which way I must look 1:24 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
The world is too much with us; late and soon 1:20 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour 1:28 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Great men have been among us; hands that penned 1:22 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
It is not to be thought of that the Flood 1:19 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
When I have borne in memory what has tamed 1:16 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Near Dover 1:22 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Vanguard of Liberty, ye men of Kent 1:22 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland 1:25 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
An Invasion Being Expected, October 1803 1:22 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Composed in the Valley near Dover, on the Day of Landing 1:28 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Not Love, not War, nor the tumultuous swell 1:22 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
To Toussaint L'Ouverture 1:16 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
When Philoctetes in the Lemnian Isle 1:19 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
When haughty expectations prostrate lie 1:21 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
O'er the wide earth, on mountain and on plain 1:21 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic 1:18 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
By Grasmere Lake 1:21 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Composed by the Sea-Side, Near Calais 1:24 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
As leaves are to the tree whereon they grow 1:25 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Adieu, Rydalian Laurels! that have grown 1:20 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
The Trosachs 1:19 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Admonition 1:19 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
The forest huge of ancient Caledon 1:19 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Aix-la-Chapelle 1:05 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Between Namur and Liège 1:18 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Composed on Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 1:18 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Roman Antiquities 1:14 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
The Monument commonly called Long Meg and Her Daughters, near the River Eden 1:12 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
There! said a Stripling, pointing with meet pride 1:10 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Mary Queen of Scots 1:09 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
In sight of the Town of Cockermouth 1:18 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
A Place of Burial in the South of Scotland 1:19 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes 1:11 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
In King's College Chapel, Cambridge 1:18 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
They dreamt not of a perishable home 1:14 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Rural Ceremony 1:12 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Places of Worship 1:18 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Who but is pleased to watch the moon on high 1:13 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said 1:16 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the sky 1:23 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
The stars are mansions built by Nature's hand 1:21 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
To a Snow-drop 1:16 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Hark! 'tis the Thrush, undaunted, undeprest 1:25 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
I dropped my pen; and listened to the Wind 1:17 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free 1:14 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
To the Cuckoo 1:18 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Near Anio's stream, I spied a gentle Dove 1:20 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Composed on a May Morning 1:18 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Personal Talk 1:14 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Yet life, you say, "is life; we have seen and see" 1:17 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Wings have we - and as far as we can go 1:17 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Nor can I not believe but that hereby 1:17 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks 1:21 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Why art thou silent? Is thy love a plant 1:18 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
To the Planet Venus, an Evening Star 1:18 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Valedictory Sonnet 1:24 Leído por Bruce Kachuk

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(3 stars)

I love Wordsworth and I appreciate the effort the reader has put in but it is very hard to listen too. Perhaps it's an accent. There's a lot of energy but your tone is flat.