Frost at Midnight
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
5 minutes, 30 seconds
Unabridged Formal Poetry
1798
A quiet, conversational poem by one of the founders of the Romantic Movement. The frost is both harsh like reality and comforting like the speaker's imagination, and the poem deals with the juxtaposition of being present and of longing.
The University of Alberta offers an in-depth examination of this poem as a joint project between the Department of Psychology and Department of English. Read by Alex Wilson.
Categories: 1-15 minutes, 2004 Release, 25 cents, Alex Wilson (Reader), Formal Verse, Poetry, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This recording will be released under the Creative Commons Attribution License on July 23, 2009 or after 100,000 purchases, whichever comes first. Read more.
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5 minutes, 30 seconds
Unabridged Formal Poetry
1798
A quiet, conversational poem by one of the founders of the Romantic Movement. The frost is both harsh like reality and comforting like the speaker's imagination, and the poem deals with the juxtaposition of being present and of longing.
The University of Alberta offers an in-depth examination of this poem as a joint project between the Department of Psychology and Department of English. Read by Alex Wilson.
Categories: 1-15 minutes, 2004 Release, 25 cents, Alex Wilson (Reader), Formal Verse, Poetry, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet and philosopher who began the Romantic Movement of poetry with William Wordsworth. He is best known for his longform poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
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 Attribution License on July 23, 2009 or after 100,000 purchases, whichever comes first. Read more.
Posted by alex at July 23, 2004 9:43 PM
