Christmas Poetry & Prose – Read by Great Voices
Readers include: Alec Guinness, Robert Donat, Richard Burton, Dulcie Gray, Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, Annette Daniels Taylor, Basil Rathbone, Claire Bloom,and special Guest: Jonathan Jones Preparations1. Clement Moore: ‘Twas the Night before Christmas (A Visit fromSt.Nicholas) / Basil Rathbone 3:152. Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods / Robert Frost 0:503. Robert Frost: Dust of Snow / (author) 0:174. Eugene Field: When Santa Claus Comes / Jonathan Jones 0:455. John Betjeman: Christmas / Alec Guinness 2:136. E.E. Cummings: Little Tree / Jonathan Jones 1:23 Seasonal Regrets7. Emily Dickinson: ‘Twas just this time last year I died /Annette Daniels Taylor 1:178. Alfred Lord Tennyson: Ring out Wild Bells !(Canto CVI from In Memoriam A.H.H) / Jonathan Jones 2:059. Jill Furse: Carol / Robert Donat 0:4210. Henry W. Longfellow: Christmas Bells / Jonathan Jones 1:59Celebrations & Mythology11. Edgar Guest: At Christmas / Jonathan Jones 2:2312. Theodore Watts-Dunton: Wassail Chorus at the Merm