Ravenna and Other Poems
Oscar Wilde
Lu par Alan Mapstone
Oscar Wilde's poem Ravenna won the prestigious Newdigate Prize for Poetry at Oxford University. It was recited by the author in the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford on June 26th 1878.
The poem describes Wilde's reaction to his first visit to Ravenna in Italy. Many of the other poems in this recording also reflect Wilde's great love of Italian life and culture. Some also show his admiration for the English Romantic Poets, Keats, Shelley and Byron.
(Summary by Alan Mapstone) (1 hr 21 min)
Chapitres
| Dedication: To My Wife | 1:26 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| Ravenna | 28:04 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| Ave Imperatrix | 8:17 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| To Milton | 1:27 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| Louis Napoleon | 1:38 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| Sonnet on the Massacre of the Christians in Bulgaria | 1:32 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| Sonnet on Approaching Italy | 1:29 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| San Miniato | 1:23 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| Italia | 1:34 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| Sonnet Written in Holy Week at Genoa | 1:33 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| Rome Unvisited | 4:07 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| Sonnet on Hearing the Dies Irae Sung in the Sistine Chapel | 1:31 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| Easter Day | 1:31 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| E Tenebris | 1:31 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| Madonna Mia | 1:27 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| Endymion | 3:01 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| Magdalen Walks | 2:12 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| Theocritus, a Villanelle | 1:28 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| The Grave of Keats | 1:30 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| The Grave of Shelley | 1:29 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| By the Arno | 1:53 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| Phèdre | 1:29 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| Sonnets written at the Lyceum Theatre (I.Portia; II.Queen Henrietta Maria; III.… | 4:16 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| At Verona | 1:29 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| On the Sale by Auction of Keats' Love Letters | 1:29 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
| The Harlot's House | 2:51 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |