Tristram and Iseult and other poems
Matthew Arnold
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The English poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold was the son of the headmaster of Rugby School who became a fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. He famously described Oxford as "that sweet city with it's dreaming spires". A deeply committed Christian he was well-versed in Greek and Latin classics and had a fascination with pre-christian myth and legend. His version of the Celtic legend of Tristram and Iseult is dramatised here.
This selection includes some of Arnold's best known poems Dover Beach, Thyrsis and The Scholar-Gypsy as well as early works like The Forsaken Merman and a dramatised reading of The Strayed Reveller. His poetry was strongly influenced by Woodsworth, whose death he memorialised in the final poem.
(Summary by Alan Mapstone)
Cast of Tristam and Iseult
Tristram: Greg Giordano
Iseult of Ireland: Agnes Robert Behr
The Page: Adrian Stephens
Huntsman: Algy Pug
Cast of The Strayed Reveller
The Youth: Inkell
Circe: ShrimpPhish
Ulysses: Alan Mapstone
(2 hr 33 min)
Chapitres
| Tristram and Iseult Part 1: Tristram | 24:53 | Lu par LibriVox Volunteers |
| Tristram and Iseult Part 2: Iseult of Ireland | 14:11 | Lu par LibriVox Volunteers |
| Tristram and Iseult Part 3: Iseult of Brittany | 17:25 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| Dover Beach | 2:59 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| Thrysis | 19:33 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| Saint Brandan | 3:53 | Lu par Yaron Bernstein |
| The Neckan | 3:24 | Lu par Agnes Robert Behr |
| The Forsaken Merman | 6:15 | Lu par Yaron Bernstein |
| Austerity of Poetry | 1:19 | Lu par Bruce Kachuk |
| East and West | 1:17 | Lu par Bruce Kachuk |
| East London | 1:17 | Lu par Bruce Kachuk |
| West London | 1:19 | Lu par Agnes Robert Behr |
| The Divinity | 1:09 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| Immortality | 1:08 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| The Good Shepherd with the Kid | 1:08 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| Monica's last Prayer | 1:10 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| Cadmus and Harmonia | 2:13 | Lu par Yaron Bernstein |
| Apollo Musagetes | 1:59 | Lu par Yaron Bernstein |
| Urania | 1:53 | Lu par Agnes Robert Behr |
| Euphrosyne | 1:51 | Lu par Adrian Stephens |
| Lines written in Kensington Gardens | 3:01 | Lu par Adrian Stephens |
| The Scholar Gypsy | 16:45 | Lu par Adrian Stephens |
| Calais Sands | 2:39 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| Stanzas from Carnac | 3:45 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| The Strayed Reveller | 11:09 | Lu par LibriVox Volunteers |
| Memorial Verses | 5:29 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |