Uploaded January 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's a virtual movie of a the poem "Uphill" By Christina Rossetti.The Poem is read in a rather interesting spooky childlike voice The poem describes a somnambulistic journey we all must take uphill on the way from life to death where at Deaths Inn there are always beds available.
Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 -- 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is perhaps best known for her long poem Goblin Market, her love poem Remember, and for the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter.
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Here's a virtual movie of a the poem "Uphill" By Christina Rossetti.The Poem is read in a rather interesting spooky childlike voice The poem describes a somnambulistic journey we all must take uphill on the way from life to death where at Deaths Inn there are always beds available.
Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 -- 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is perhaps best known for her long poem Goblin Market, her love poem Remember, and for the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter.
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Jim Clark
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![The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred Lord Tennyson - Rose Coghlan - Poetry recital -
Heres a virtual movie of a fabulous recital of The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson by the Victorian/Edwardian English actress Rose Coghlan (1851 - 1932) using the soundtrack from a very rare 78 rpm shellac record recorded in 1909.
Rose Coghlan (March 18, 1851 – April 2, 1932), English[1] actress was the sister of Charles Francis Coghlan.
She went to America in 1871 as part of Lydia Thompsons troupe touring the U.S.. She made her Broadway debut in 1872 in a musical. Coghlan was again in England from 1873 to 1877, playing with Barry Sullivan, and then returned to America. She became prominent as Countess Zicka in Diplomacy, and Stephanie in Forget-me-not. She was at Wallacks almost continuously until 1888, and subsequently appeared in melodrama in parts like the title-role of The Sporting Duchess.
Rose Coghlan died in 1932 in Harrison, New York. She had been married twice first to Clinton J. Edgerly from 1885 to 1890 and second to John T. Sullivan from 1890 to 1893. She had two children, an adopted daughter and a son. The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred Lord Tennyson - Rose Coghlan - Poetry recital -](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lodoNIRSwbw/mqdefault.jpg)

![The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock By T.S. Eliot Recited By Peter Oshaughnessy Poem animation
Heres a virtual movie of the Late celebrated Australian Irish actor Peter Oshaughnessy reciting beautifully one of the greatest poems of the 20th century The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock By T.S. Eliot.
I briefly got to know Peter Oshaughnessy in May of 2013 just 2 months before his death, having known his name from my collection of poetry records. I had several chats with him on the phone and he was very enthusiastic about my virtual movies of great poets and literary figures. I sent him copies of several of his records he had lost copies of years ago. He sent me loads of amazing recordings of him reading poetry,literature,Irish folklore etc and asked me to animate what I could of his stuff.I managed to do a few,but with so much material and quite a bit of it out my comfort zone knowledgewise I must admit I was a bit overwhelmed having lost touch with him I was really saddened to read of his passing in July last year he was such a great character,and even at the great age of 89 full of enthusiasm for the spoken word and life.
Peter Oshaughnessy OAM (1923-2013 ), actor and producer, has produced numerous Australian plays, including John Courtneys Off to the Diggings and James Tuckers Jemmy Green in Australia at the Adelaide Festival in 1966. He has played the major Shakespearean tragic roles both in Australia and overseas and is well known for his one-act show Diary of a Madman, an adaptation of Gogols short story. In 1968 he collaborated with Graeme Inson and Russel Ward in The Restless Years; a lavishly illustrated anthology of documents, ballads, poems, letters, extracts from journals, newspaper reports and advertisements, The Restless Years ranges from 1770 to 1901 and is based on an award-winning television programme, produced by OShaughnessy. In the 1950s he also wrote and produced with Jeff Underhill a popular childrens play, The Bunyip and the Satellite. He edited the memoirs of Joseph Holt, published under the title A Rum Story (1988), and the journal of John Mitchel, titled The Gardens of Hell: John Mitchel in Van Diemens Land, 1850-1853 (1988).
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, commonly known as Prufrock, is a poem by American-British poet T. S. Eliot (1888 1965). Eliot began writing Prufrock in February 1910 and it was first published in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse[2] at the instigation of Ezra Pound (1885 1972). It was later printed as part of a twelve-poem pamphlet (or chapbook) titled Prufrock and Other Observations in 1917.[1] At the time of its publication, Prufrock was considered shocking and offensive, but is now seen as heralding a paradigmatic cultural shift from late 19th century Romantic verse and Georgian lyrics to Modernism. The poem is regarded[by whom?] as the beginning of Eliots career as an influential poet.
Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 4 January 1965) was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and one of the twentieth centurys major poets.[1] Born in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.
Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), which is seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930) and Four Quartets (1945).[2] He is also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry.
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![W. H. Davies Leisure - No time to stand and stare read by W.H. Davies Poem animation
Heres a virtual movie of Welsh poet William Henry Davies or W H Davies (1871 - 1940) actualy reading with his introduction talk via a rare archive sound recording his much loved and universally well known poem Leisure . William Henry Davies or W H Davies (3 July 1871[1] 26 September 1940) was a Welsh poet and writer. William Henry Davies was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, the son of a publican. After an apprenticeship as a picture-frame maker and a series of labouring jobs, he travelled to America, first to New York and then to the Klondike. He returned to England after having lost a foot jumping a train in Canada, where he led a penurious life in London lodging houses and as a pedlar in the country. He married in 1923, Emma, who was much younger than he. His first poems were published when he was 34. Most of his poetry is on the subject of nature or life on the road and exhibits a natural simple, earthy style. He also wrote two novels and autobiographical works, his best known being Autobiography of a Super-Tramp. Brief biography 2 ........... William Henry Davies (1871-1940), poet and author, was born in Pillgwenlly, Newport, Monmouthshire. After leaving school he trained as a carver and gilder, but remained dissatisfied with his life. He left his work and spent a period working and begging his way across the United States of America and Canada, but in March 1899 he lost his foot while jumping from a train. He returned to Britain and resolved to make his mark as a poet. After experiencing many setbacks he eventually published his first book, The Souls Destroyer and Other Poems in March 1905. Subsequent volumes included New Poems (1907), Nature Poems (1908), Farwell to Poesy (1910), Songs of Joy (1911), Foliage (1913), and The Bird of Paradise (1914). He also wrote prose and his Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1908) was based on his experiences of living hand-to-mouth in England and north America. In 1923 he married Helen Payne, a prostitute who was thirty years his junior. They settled in Sussex and later Gloucestershire. He was awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Wales in 1929 and a plaque in his honour was unveiled at the Church House Inn, Newport, in 1938.
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Leisure
WHAT is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?— No time to stand beneath the boughs, And stare as long as sheep and cows: No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass: No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night: No time to turn at Beautys glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance: No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began? A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare W. H. Davies Leisure - No time to stand and stare read by W.H. Davies Poem animation](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oF0n7h-rpBo/mqdefault.jpg)

![Ode on a Grecian Urn By John Keats Poem - Animation
Heres a virtual movie of the great John Keats reading Ode on a Grecian Urn The poem asserts that a thing of beauty that is so seemingly silent yet can speak volumes and has its own worth that transcends material values.
Ode on a Grecian Urn is a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819 and published anonymously in the January 1820, Number 15 issue of the magazine Annals of the Fine Arts (see 1820 in poetry).
The poem is one of several Great Odes of 1819, which include Ode on Indolence, Ode on Melancholy, Ode to a Nightingale, and Ode to Psyche. Keats found earlier forms of poetry unsatisfactory for his purpose, and the collection represented a new development of the ode form. He was inspired to write the poem after reading two articles by English artist and writer Benjamin Haydon. Keats was aware of other works on classical Greek art, and had first-hand exposure to the Elgin Marbles, all of which reinforced his belief that classical Greek art was idealistic and captured Greek virtues, which forms the basis of the poem.
Divided into five stanzas of ten lines each, the ode contains a narrators discourse on a series of designs on a Grecian urn. The poem focuses on two scenes: one in which a lover eternally pursues a beloved without fulfilment, and another of villagers about to perform a sacrifice. The final lines of the poem declare that beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know, and literary critics have debated whether they increase or diminish the overall beauty of the poem. Critics have focused on other aspects of the poem, including the role of the narrator, the inspirational qualities of real-world objects, and the paradoxical relationship between the poems world and reality.
Ode on a Grecian Urn was not well received by contemporary critics. It was only by the mid-19th century that it began to be praised, although it is now considered to be one of the greatest odes in the English language.[1] A long debate over the poems final statement divided 20th-century critics, but most agreed on the beauty of the work, despite various perceived inadequacies.
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![Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poem - Animation
Heres a virtual movie the great Percy Bysshe Shelley reading his ode to the frailties of tyranny the poem Ozymandias. The central theme of Ozymandias is contrasting the inevitable decline of all leaders and of the empires they build with their pretensions to greatness
Ozymandias (in five syllables: /ˌɒziˈmændiəs/, oz-ee-man-dee-əs; or four: /ˌɒziˈmændjəs/, oz-ee-mand-yəs)[1] is a sonnet written by the English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822). First published in the 11 January 1818 issue of The Examiner[2] in London, it was included the following year in Shelleys collection Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems (1819)[3] and in a posthumous compilation of his poems published in 1826.[4] Ozymandias is regarded as one of Shelleys most famous works and is frequently anthologised.
In antiquity, Ozymandias was an alternative name for the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II. Shelley began writing his poem in 1817, soon after the announcement of the British Museums acquisition of a large fragment of a statue of Ramesses II from the thirteenth-century BC, and some scholars believe that Shelley was inspired by this. The 7.25-ton fragment of the statues head and torso had been removed in 1816 from the mortuary temple of Ramesses at Thebes by the Italian adventurer Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823). It was expected to arrive in London in 1818, but did not arrive until 1821.[5][6] Shelley wrote the poem in friendly competition with his friend and fellow poet Horace Smith (1779–1849) who also wrote a sonnet on the same topic with the very same title. Smiths poem would be first published in The Examiner a few weeks after Shelleys sonnet. Both poems explore the fate of history and the ravages of time—that all prominent figures and the empires they build are impermanent and their legacies fated to decay and oblivion.
Shelley wrote the poem in competition with his friend Horace Smith, who published his sonnet a month after Shelleys in the same magazine.[7] It takes the same subject, tells the same story, and makes a similar moral point, but one related more directly to modernity, ending by imagining a hunter of the future looking in wonder on the ruins of an annihilated London. It was originally published under the same title as Shelleys verse; but in later collections Smith retitled it On A Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below
Smiths Ozymandias
In Egypts sandy silence, all alone,
Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws
The only shadow that the Desert knows:—
I am great OZYMANDIAS, saith the stone,
The King of Kings; this mighty City shows
The wonders of my hand.— The Citys gone,—
Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose
The site of this forgotten Babylon.
We wonder,—and some Hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when thro the wilderness
Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.
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Jim Clark
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![The Darkling Thrush By Thomas Hardy Poem animation
Heres a virtual movie by a rather good looking Victorian lady beautifully reciting the much loved poem The Darkling Thrush By the brilliant and greatrThomas Hardy.
The Darkling Thrush is a poem by Thomas Hardy. Originally titled The Centurys End, 1900, it was published on 29 December 1900 in The Graphic. A deleted 1899 on the poems manuscript suggests that it may have been written the year before.[1] It was later included in a collection entitled Poems of the Past and the Present (1903).
The first stanzas open with a description of the dreary, bleak winter landscape, but the melancholy tone is transformed by the bright, optimistic singing of an aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small. In the end, the speaker concludes that the small bird possesses some blessed Hope, whereof he knew and I was unaware.
Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth.[1] Charles Dickens was another important influence.[2] Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society.
While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of novels, including Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the dUrbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). However, beginning in the 1950s Hardy has been recognised as a major poet; he had a significant influence on the Movement poets of the 1950s and 1960s, including Philip Larkin.
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Jim Clark
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