John Keats: Poems

Read by Douglas Dodge

In John Keats: Poems, Douglas Dodge modulates his voice beautifully to capture the slightly varied emotions of many poems. This well-edited recording contains Keats's most famous works: "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," "The Eve of St. Agnes," "Ode to a Nightingale," "On a Grecian Urn," along with many lesser-known short poems such as "To Mrs. Reynolds' Cat" that exhibit the poet's more fanciful side.

In this series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express, the selectors offer intriguing insight into their own work.

Douglas  Hodge (born 1960) is a British Olivier Award-winning actor, director, and musician who trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. One of his grandmothers was visually impaired, and he is a celebrity supporter of the Royal National Institute of Blind People and its “Talking Books” project and is a regular reader of BBC Radio 4‘s Book at Bedtime.