Ravenna and Other Poems
Oscar Wilde
Read by 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)
Chapters
| Dedication: To My Wife | 1:26 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Ravenna | 28:04 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Ave Imperatrix | 8:17 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| To Milton | 1:27 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Louis Napoleon | 1:38 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Sonnet on the Massacre of the Christians in Bulgaria | 1:32 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Sonnet on Approaching Italy | 1:29 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| San Miniato | 1:23 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Italia | 1:34 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Sonnet Written in Holy Week at Genoa | 1:33 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Rome Unvisited | 4:07 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Sonnet on Hearing the Dies Irae Sung in the Sistine Chapel | 1:31 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Easter Day | 1:31 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| E Tenebris | 1:31 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Madonna Mia | 1:27 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Endymion | 3:01 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Magdalen Walks | 2:12 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Theocritus, a Villanelle | 1:28 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| The Grave of Keats | 1:30 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| The Grave of Shelley | 1:29 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| By the Arno | 1:53 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Phèdre | 1:29 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Sonnets written at the Lyceum Theatre (I.Portia; II.Queen Henrietta Maria; III.… | 4:16 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| At Verona | 1:29 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| On the Sale by Auction of Keats' Love Letters | 1:29 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| The Harlot's House | 2:51 | Read by Alan Mapstone |