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The Ultimate Poetry Collection : Poetry of War, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry

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William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time.

A collection of the greatest poetry from the Romantic period, the battlefield, and the Victorian era, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors.

Themes of war, love, nature, sexuality, and much more are played out in these timeless readings of poetry from the 19th and 20th century.

Performed by Sir John Gielgud; Richard Burton; William Squire; Richard Marquand; Peggy Ashcroft; Margaretta Scott; Tony Church; Derek Godfrey; Patrick Garland; Gary Watson; Margaretta Scott; and Janette Richer; Gwen Watford; and David King.

This collection includes poems from:

• William Wordsworth

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• William Blake

• Thomas Hardy

• WB Yeats

• Robert Browning

• Lord Alfred Tennyson

• Christina Rossetti

• Lord Byron

• Wilfred Owen

• Siegfried Sassoon

• Percy Bysshe Shelley

• John Keats

• Gerard Manley Hopkins

• Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• Ted Hughes



  1. 50+ Masterpieces you have to read before you die. Christmas Stories and Poems : A Christmas Carol, A Merry Christmas, A Letter from Santa Claus, Christmas Bells, The Gift of the Magi and others

    Charles Dickens, L.M. Montgomery, L. Frank Baum, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nikolai Gogol, William Dean Howells, Joseph Rudyard Kipling, Elizabeth Harrison, John Milton, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlof, Clement Moore, Henry van Dyke, Beatrix Potter, Anton Chekhov, O. Henry, Hesba Stretton, Kenneth Grahame, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Kingsley, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, C. W. Stubbs, Eugene Field, Paul Laurence Dunbar, William Topaz McGonagall, Emily Dickinson, G.K. Chesterton

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  2. Anthology of Classic Short Stories. Mystery and Adventure. Vol. 4

    Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Jacques Futrelle, Thomas Hardy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Susan Glaspell

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  3. Thomas Hardy: The Complete Novels - Far From The Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure and much more..

    Thomas Hardy

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  4. The Giants of Literature: Series 2 : Complete Novels by George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Mary Shelley, Jack London, Lewis Carroll, D. H. Lawrence,

    Homer, Henry James, George Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Mary Shelley, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, Louisa May Alcott, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle

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  5. The Greatest Writers of All Time: Series 2 : Homer, George Eliot, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, Jack London, Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, Mary Shelley, Louisa May Alcott, Arthur Conan Doyle

    Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Homer, Thomas Hardy, Mary Shelley, D. H. Lawrence

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  6. The Mayor of Casterbridge

    Thomas Hardy

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  7. Tess of the D'Ubervilles

    Thomas Hardy

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  8. Far from the Madding Crowd

    Thomas Hardy

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  9. Jude the Obscure

    Thomas Hardy

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  10. Library of Masterpieces - 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime

    illiam Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Louisa May Alcott, Miguel de Cervantes, John Milton, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, H. G. Wells, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Kenneth Grahame, C. S. Lewis, Malcolm Lowry, Ford Madox Ford, Mark Twain, Jack London, Herman Melville, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Kate Chopin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Margaret Mitchell, Sylvia Plath, Carson McCullers, L. Frank Baum, L. M. Montgomery, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Gogol, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Erich Maria Remarque, Albert Camus, Marcel Proust, Jules Verne, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Stendhal, Alexandre Dumas, Henrik Ibsen, Rudyard Kipling, Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Laozi, Sun Tzu, Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Dante Alighieri, Niccolò Machiavelli

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  11. Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres

    Thomas Hardy

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  12. JUDE THE OBSCURE (World's Classics Series) : Historical Romance Novel

    Thomas Hardy

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  1. Sons and Lovers

    D.H. Lawrence

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  2. Shakespeare: The Masque Quartet : Henry VIII, A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest

    William Shakespeare

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  3. Shakespeare: The Rome Quartet : Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus

    William Shakespeare

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  4. Shakespeare: The Problem Plays : All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure For Measure, The Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, Troilus and Cressida, The Winter’s Tale

    William Shakespeare

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  5. Alice in Wonderland

    Lewis Carroll

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  6. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : A Curated Collection

    Arthur Conan Doyle

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  7. Comic and Curious Verse

    A.E. Housman, Benjamin Franklin King, J.K. Stephen, A.C. Swinburne, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, W.S. Gilbert, Edward Lear, William McGonagall, A.H. Clough, Lord Byron, Walter Raleigh, Wendy Hillier

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  8. The Treasury of Romantic Poetry

    William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats

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  9. The Ultimate Poetry Collection : Poetry of War, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry

    Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, William Wordsworth, WB Yeats, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Siegfried Sassoon, John Keats, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ted Hughes, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Wilfred Owen

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  10. The M. R. James Collection : No. 13 and Other Ghost Stories, Ghost Stories, More Ghost Stories

    M. R. James

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  11. The Jane Austen Collection : Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion

    Jane Austen

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  12. The Poetry of War

    Dylan Thomas, Thomas Hardy, WB Yeats, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Ted Hughes, John Betjeman

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