Saturday 13 November 2010

S.T.COLERIDGE: THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. A reading by Richard Burton.


Click on link below to access Richard Burton's reading of Coleridge's poem. Read along with Burton or just sit back and let his gorgeous voice take you through the poem. This is the first of three segments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGH4p4z4s5A

Coleridge is often associated with The Romantic Poets and there are Be Curious resources that students should access to develop a contextual understanding of this poem and the issues explored by Romanticism. Click on links below to access relevant Be Curious links:



This documentary is an essential resource:
http://becuriouslit.blogspot.com/2010/09/romantics-essential-resource-this.html

Click on link to access decent audio resource from BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time':
http://becuriouslit.blogspot.com/2010/09/romantics-audio-resource.html

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