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)
Kapitel
| Tristram and Iseult Part 1: Tristram | 24:53 | Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers |
| Tristram and Iseult Part 2: Iseult of Ireland | 14:11 | Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers |
| Tristram and Iseult Part 3: Iseult of Brittany | 17:25 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| Dover Beach | 2:59 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| Thrysis | 19:33 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| Saint Brandan | 3:53 | Gelesen von Yaron Bernstein |
| The Neckan | 3:24 | Gelesen von Agnes Robert Behr |
| The Forsaken Merman | 6:15 | Gelesen von Yaron Bernstein |
| Austerity of Poetry | 1:19 | Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk |
| East and West | 1:17 | Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk |
| East London | 1:17 | Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk |
| West London | 1:19 | Gelesen von Agnes Robert Behr |
| The Divinity | 1:09 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Immortality | 1:08 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| The Good Shepherd with the Kid | 1:08 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Monica's last Prayer | 1:10 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Cadmus and Harmonia | 2:13 | Gelesen von Yaron Bernstein |
| Apollo Musagetes | 1:59 | Gelesen von Yaron Bernstein |
| Urania | 1:53 | Gelesen von Agnes Robert Behr |
| Euphrosyne | 1:51 | Gelesen von Adrian Stephens |
| Lines written in Kensington Gardens | 3:01 | Gelesen von Adrian Stephens |
| The Scholar Gypsy | 16:45 | Gelesen von Adrian Stephens |
| Calais Sands | 2:39 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| Stanzas from Carnac | 3:45 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |
| The Strayed Reveller | 11:09 | Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers |
| Memorial Verses | 5:29 | Gelesen von Alan Mapstone |