Darkness
by Lord Byron
5 minutes, 19 seconds
Unabridged Narrative Poem
1816
In which our hero, the most Romantic of all the Romantic poets, takes on the end of the world.
Written in Geneva, Switzerland in the summer of 1816, when Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and John Polidori spent their evenings telling each other ghost stories. The resulting tales included Shelley's Frankenstein, Polidori's creation of the vampire/vampyre genre (based on a novel fragment of Byron's), and this gloomy, speculative verse.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Categories: 1-15 minutes, 19th Century AD, 2007 Release, 25 cents, Alex Wilson (Reader), Fantasy, Formal Verse, Lord Byron, Poetry, SF Poetry, Speculative
This recording will be released under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial License on July 26, 2012 or after 100,000 purchases, whichever comes first. Read more.
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5 minutes, 19 seconds
Unabridged Narrative Poem
1816
In which our hero, the most Romantic of all the Romantic poets, takes on the end of the world.
Written in Geneva, Switzerland in the summer of 1816, when Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and John Polidori spent their evenings telling each other ghost stories. The resulting tales included Shelley's Frankenstein, Polidori's creation of the vampire/vampyre genre (based on a novel fragment of Byron's), and this gloomy, speculative verse.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Categories: 1-15 minutes, 19th Century AD, 2007 Release, 25 cents, Alex Wilson (Reader), Fantasy, Formal Verse, Lord Byron, Poetry, SF Poetry, Speculative
Lord Byron (1788-1824) was the most Romantic of all the British Romantic poets. So much so that he died of a fever while trying to finish Don Juan.
Alex Wilson is a writer and stage/film actor from northern Ohio and now based in Carrboro, North Carolina. He starred in the North American Premiere of Richard Taylor's musical Whistle Down the Wind and recently filmed The Third Cord with Emmy-nominated director Jack Lucido. His animated comics-parody film All's Fair in Love and Police Actions was recently selected as an iFilm Pick. He is the founder of Telltale Weekly and Spoken Alexandria. See his website for more. [new windows, all].
This recording will be released under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial License on July 26, 2012 or after 100,000 purchases, whichever comes first. Read more.
Posted by alex at July 26, 2007 11:02 AM
