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John Richetti reads Romantic lyrics

Home Recording Session, September 15, 2020

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Rime of the Ancient Mariner (28:25): MP3

Wexler Studio Session at the Kelly Writers House, December 6, 2017

George Gordon, Lord Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto 3 (1:06:21): MP3
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto 4 (1:36:52): MP3
Fragment on the back of the manuscript of Canto 1 (0:33): MP3
Don Juan Canto 1 (1:25:16): MP3

Studio 308 Session, CPCW, University of Pennsylvania, January 27, 2014

John Keats

To Lord Byron (1:06): MP3
To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent (1:01): MP3
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (1:06): MP3
Sonnet Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition (1:01): MP3
On the Grasshopper and Cricket (0:56): MP3
On the Sea (1:01): MP3
La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad (2:22): MP3
Ode on a Grecian Urn (3:12): MP3
Ode to a Nightingale (4:45): MP3
Ode on Melancholy (2:01): MP3
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern (1:17): MP3
Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art. (1:07): MP3
To Autumn (2:10): MP3

Percy Bysshe Shelley

To Wordsworth (0:57): MP3
Mutability (1:10): MP3
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (4:56): MP3
Ode to the West Wind (4:20): MP3
A Song: "Men of England" (1:35): MP3
Sonnet: England in 1819 (1:09): MP3
Ozymandias (1:03): MP3
To a Skylark (4:01): MP3
When the Lamp is Shattered (1:16): MP3

George Gordon, Lord Byron

The Girl of Cadiz (2:43): MP3
Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos (1:09): MP3
Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa (1:16): MP3
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year (1:57): MP3
She Walks in Beauty (1:05): MP3
On Jordan's Banks (1:42): MP3
Vision of Belshazzar (1:54): MP3
On the Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus (1:26): MP3
By the Rivers of Babylon We Sat Down and Wept (1:04): MP3
The Destruction of Sennacherib (1:48): MP3
So We'll Go No More a Roving (0:43): MP3
To Thomas Moore (0:55): MP3

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rose (1:11): MP3
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison (4:23): MP3
Frost at Midnight (4:13): MP3
Kubla Khan (2:46): MP3
Dejection: An Ode (8:03): MP3

William Blake

To the Muses (1:51): MP3
From Songs of Innocence (0:59): MP3
The Lamb (0:49): MP3
The Little Black Boy (1:38): MP3
The Chimney Sweeper (1:33): MP3
Holy Thursday (1:04): MP3
From Songs of Experience (0:50): MP3
The Clod and the Pebble (0:38): MP3
Holy Thursday (0:51): MP3
The Sick Rose (0:20): MP3
The Tyger (1:14): MP3
The Garden of Love (0:44): MP3
London (0:54): MP3
A Poison Tree (0:50): MP3
And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time¹ (1:02): MP3

William Wordsworth

Lines Written in Early Spring (1:20): MP3
We Are Seven (3:02): MP3
Expostulation and Reply (1:38): MP3
The Tables Turned; an Evening Scene, on the Same Subject (1:34): MP3
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798 (9:25): MP3
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways (0:49): MP3
Nutting (3:26): MP3
My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold (0:34): MP3
Intimations of Immortality (10:19): MP3
Resolution and Independence (8:32): MP3
The world is too much with us late and soon² (0:58): MP3
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 (0:59): MP3
To Toussaint L'Ouverture (0:57): MP3
London, 1802 (1:06): MP3
Nuns Fret Not at Their Convents Narrow Room (2:31): MP3
The Solitary Reaper (1:40): MP3
Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont (3:46): MP3
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud¹ (1:16): MP3
Intimations on Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood³ (10:21): MP3

Recorded by Steve McLaughlin

¹Recorded at the Wexler Studio, Kelly Writers House, April 10, 2019
²Recorded at home by John Richetti, August 28, 2021
³Recorded at home by John Richetti, January 8, 2021

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